My assumption "I assume the syntax of the control file of the .deb package is correct since it is properly displayed after installation." was not right.
The original deb files that revealed this issue have a syntax issue in the long description. Empty lines consist of space, rather than space and dot. I suspect this causes the strange behaviour. Even so I should be able to reproduce with a sample deb file, with the same syntax issue, but I failed so far. Seems like reproducing is more complex than I thought. I think some corruption of saved package info in /var/lib/dpkg is required in order for this issue to happen. I'll search on some more to find out how to reproduce. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/955138 Title: previous short description is displayed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/955138/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
