allow whitespace formatting in variant descriptions (#23853)

2021-05-26 13:34:13 -07:00
parent f1e0053bf4
commit b7f7d901d1
1 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
--- a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/info.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/info.py
@@ -121,10 +121,12 @@ def lines(self):
                )
                allowed = v.allowed_values.replace('True, False', 'on, off')
                allowed = textwrap.wrap(allowed, width=self.column_widths[1])
-                description = textwrap.wrap(
-                    v.description,
-                    width=self.column_widths[2]
-                )
+                description = []
+                for d_line in v.description.split('\n'):
+                    description += textwrap.wrap(
+                        d_line,
+                        width=self.column_widths[2]
+                    )
                for t in zip_longest(
                        name, allowed, description, fillvalue=''
                ):