The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 4e6da8c691773fbad5d6df4f0544361ea971dc14
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Nov 4 06:25:00 2010 +0100
man: Remove comment about newlines in status-fd error entries
This got fixed in commit db9645cff36a3fff3c597764fb8d49fbc819bad7.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bd63a16..e6e9d4b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ dpkg (1.16.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
dpkg-divert when no --package or --local options have been specified.
* Do not allow versions starting with non-digit when doing strict parsing,
warn otherwise.
+ * Update dpkg(1) to note that --status-fd output does not contain newlines
+ in error messages anymore (this was fixed in 1.15.0).
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Fail properly when debian/source/format is empty. Closes: #600854
diff --git a/man/dpkg.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index 0332080..456cb26 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH dpkg 1 "2010-10-26" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
+.TH dpkg 1 "2010-11-04" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
.SH NAME
dpkg \- package manager for Debian
.
@@ -576,10 +576,8 @@ forms:
Package status changed; \fIstatus\fR is as in the status file.
.TP
.BI "status: " package " : error : " extended-error-message
-An error occurred. Unfortunately at the time of writing
-\fIextended-error-message\fR can contain newlines, although in locales
-where the translators have not made mistakes every newline is followed
-by at least one space.
+An error occurred. Any possible newlines in \fIextended-error-message\fR
+will be converted to spaces before output.
.TP
.BI "status: " file " : conffile-prompt : '" real-old "' '" real-new "' "
useredited " " distedited
User is being asked a conffile question.
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