Package: alien-arena
Version: 6.05-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The wrapper script's help-text contains backslash-escaped characters which
do not get interpreted:
------ snip ------
$ alien-arena -h
Alien Arena client wrapper\nThis script is Debian specific, it is *NOT* part of
the source distribution!\nUsage: alien-arena [OPTION] [PARAMETERS]...\n\n -h,
--help\t\tDisplay this help\n -q, --quiet\t\tDisable console output\n
[PARAMETERS]\tPass internal parameters to the client\n\nMore information on
using this script can be found in the alien-arena(6) man page.\n
$
------ snip ------
Solution:
Replace
echo ${USAGE}
with
echo -e ${USAGE}
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages alien-arena depends on:
ii alien-arena-data 6.05-1 Game data files for Alien Arena
ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 6.5.2-7 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 6.5.2-7 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.1-2 X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
alien-arena recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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