** Attachment added: "Test package with a long description" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983831/+attachment/3082718/+files/testpkg.tar.bz2
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983831 Title: software-center mishandles multi-line descriptions Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This happens with software-center 5.0.1.4 as shipped with Ubuntu 11.10. I have created a test package to make it easy to reproduce this. In the test package's control file the description is defined as follows: --- Description: A test package The goal is to test that multi-line descriptions are handled correctly, especially with regards to sentences that span more than two lines and how spaces and line wrapping is handled. --- 'dpkg --info' shows the description exactly as it was in the control file. However in software-center the description is shown as: --- The goal is to test that multi-line descriptions are handled correctly, especially with regards to sentences that span more than two lines and howspaces and line wrapping is handled. --- Notice how the last word of line two got concatenated with first one of line three, resulting in 'howspaces', thus causing users to report typos. I'm attaching testpkg.tar.bz2. It contains: * testpkg_1.0-1_all.deb which is the test package I mentionned above. * testpkg, a directory containing the source for building the above package. To rebuild the package, simply do: cd testpkg fakeroot ./build To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/983831/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
