Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.16.1.2
Severity: normal
The example on the deb-substvars(5) manpage shows a Description header
with ${Description}, an empty line, and more text, and the resulting
substituted control file shows that empty line too. However, it doesn't
actually work that way. The empty line gets removed.
Here is a shell script doing the substitution from the manpage example,
to show what it actually outputs.
---
rm -rf debian
mkdir debian
# dpkg-gencontrol wants a tmp dir and changelog file
mkdir debian/tmp
debchange --create --package x-test -v 1 "Test"
# Description header taken straight from example in deb-substvars(5)
echo 'Source: x-test
Package: x-test
Architecture: all
Description: foo application
${Description}
.
More text.' > debian/control
echo 'Description=foo is bar.${Newline}foo is great.' > debian/substvars
# Generate control file, output into stdout
dpkg-gencontrol -O
---
Note that I didn't test if this affects only Description (if it affects
other fields, the bug title is wrong).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii base-files 6.5
ii binutils 2.22-5
ii bzip2 1.0.6-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1.2
ii make 3.81-8.1
ii patch 2.6.1-3
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3
Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends:
pn build-essential 11.5
pn fakeroot 1.18.2-1
pn gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.6.2-4
pn gcc-4.5 [c-compiler] 4.5.3-12
pn gcc-4.6 [c-compiler] 4.6.2-12
pn gnupg 1.4.11-3
pn gpgv 1.4.11-3
pn libalgorithm-merge-perl <none>
Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests:
ii debian-keyring 2011.12.01
-- no debconf information
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