Specifically, we shouldn't allow newlines in the pkgdesc field, as pacman will ignore the continuation and end the description prematurely as written to the local DB. Normalize ALL whitespace, replacing it with single whitespace characters.
Fixes strange errors as seen by FS#32852. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <[email protected]> --- This seemed like the ideal place to fix it since we don't really care much about the contents of pkgdesc anywhere else. I suppose its conceivable that other fields might be interested in similar touching up. scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index d387b7d..6b18233 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -1653,7 +1653,7 @@ write_pkginfo() { printf "pkgname = %s\n" "$1" (( SPLITPKG )) && echo pkgbase = $pkgbase echo "pkgver = $(get_full_version)" - printf "pkgdesc = %s\n" "$pkgdesc" + printf "pkgdesc = %s\n" "${pkgdesc//+([[:space:]])/ }" printf "url = %s\n" "$url" printf "builddate = %s\n" "$builddate" printf "packager = %s\n" "$packager" -- 1.8.0
