Package: debhelper Version: 9.20120608 Severity: important Hi,
The following control and rules snippets don't produce the expected
paragraph formatting in the long description. Example source package attached.
===== control =====
Package: test
Architecture: all
Description: test
paragraph 1
.
paragraph 2
.
paragraph 3
Package: test1
Architecture: all
Description: test 1
${alpha}
.
${beta}
.
some more text
Package: test2
Architecture: all
Description: test 2
paragraph 1
.
paragraph 2
.
${alpha}
===================
===== rules =====
override_dh_gencontrol:
dh_gencontrol -- -V'alpha=Alpha' -V'beta=Beta'
=================
Result:
Package: test
Source: gencontrolbug
Version: 1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 2
Section: misc
Priority: extra
Description: test
paragraph 1
.
paragraph 2
.
paragraph 3
Package: test1
Source: gencontrolbug
Version: 1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 2
Section: misc
Priority: extra
Description: test 1
Alpha
Beta
.
some more text
Package: test2
Source: gencontrolbug
Version: 1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 2
Section: misc
Priority: extra
Description: test 2
paragraph 1
paragraph 2
.
Alpha
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500,
'stable-updates'), (130, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-6.1
ii dpkg 1.16.4.3
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.4.3
ii file 5.11-1
ii html2text 1.3.2a-15
ii man-db 2.6.2-1
ii perl 5.14.2-12
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 0.60
-- no debconf information
gencontrolbug_1.tar.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
