** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Robert Roth (evfool)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983831
Title:
software-center mishandles multi-line descriptions
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
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:
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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.
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'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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