#588: requiring '.' for blank lines is annoying ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: Jake Wheat | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.2 Severity: minor | Resolution: duplicate Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by guest): Yes I missed that text, my mistake. I did check a few packages on hackage db before reporting and somehow managed to only find ones where the package author had made the same mistake as me, looking again I can see most uploaders got this right. Since a few others have also made this mistake, could I suggest adding a sentence to description property, something like: For library packages, this field is used as prologue text by setup haddock (see the section called “setup haddock”), and thus may contain the same markup as haddock documentation comments (you need to use an indented '.' to get a blank line in the markup passed to haddock, as noted above). -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/588#comment:3 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects