On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, James A. Robinson wrote: > But Ian, almost _any_ format can be made machine readable -- but > Bill's format is _easily_ machine readable -- you could slap together > a whole bunch of ways to read it. I'm very much against going all out > for "beauty" when you can have a nice compromise between beauty and > easy functionality.
I'd intended to drop this topic, but I'll belabor one point here. If package announcements are uploaded to debian.org for machine parsing and debian-changes announcements are machine-generated from there, The mechanized debian-changes announcement generator has a lot of control over the aesthetics of the announcement format which is presented to humans for reading.
