Hello Francois, and thank you for your very helpful bug report! Your
list of impacted packages is also very helpful indeed. Thank you for
taking the time to investigate and document this problem so well. I will
mark this as 'triaged" as I believe that we have all the information we
need to fix this issue.
Again, your help and work on this is very much appreciated!
Best regards,
Gary
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983831
Title:
software-center mishandles multi-line descriptions
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
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
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