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 ### Footnotes
 
-<dl><dt><a id="1" name="1">¹</a></dt><dd>
+<dl compact="compact"><dt><a id="1" name="1">¹</a></dt><dd>
 
 At least between debootstrap version 1.0.37
 and 1.0.93 (including) these distributions needs editing of