Comment 3 for bug 1804258

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote : Re: [Bug 1804258] Re: Description looks very ugly in snap.yaml

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snap-multi-line-descriptions-need-newline-trim-on-store-import/3934
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 12:40, Gustavo Niemeyer <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I can certainly provide it, but I'm curious about why do you think that
> matters. This comes from a YAML file which has this string under a
> multi-line description. This is loaded by snapcraft, and then marshaled
> by Snapcraft itself, which is a process completely independent and
> unrelated to the source YAML.
>
> About ">", I still don't understand the use case. Can you point me to a
> thread where this was discussed? The > corrupts the input from the
> source, making it not match the formatting that was applied by the
> author, as I demonstrated above with actual code. This is clearly not
> desirable.
>
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