** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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Title:
software-center mishandles multi-line descriptions
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “software-center” source package in Precise:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
SRU TEST CASE:
1. Launch the current Ubuntu Software Center in Precise.
2. Search for the "Darwinia" package and view the details view for it.
3. Verify that the description text contains the error "Infectionand" near
the end.
4. Close Ubuntu Software Center.
5. Update to the version of software-center in precise-proposed.
6. Launch Ubuntu Software Center again and again navigate to "Darwinia".
7. Verify that the text now correctly reads "Infection and".
SRU REGRESSION POTENTIAL:
Very low, but if there is a regression it would likely show as an error in
description text layout or content.
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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