software-center mishandles the description paragraphs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
software-center extends paragraphs across empty lines whenever the preceding line does not end with a full stop or semi-colon or other punctuation.
To reproduce this bug download the attached package, testpara_
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First paragraph.
On recent Debian and Ubuntu 64-bit distributions this package requires
multiarch to be enabled before it can be installed. To ensure this is the
case run the following commands as root first:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
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But instead the two sudo lines are put on one line and thus rendered meaningless:
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[...]
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update
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I'm also attaching:
* A tar file containing the source for the test package.
* A screenshot showing the description being rendered incorrectly in software-center, and correctly in gdebi-gtk.
See alo the Debian policy concerning the description field:
http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: software-center 5.6.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 29 18:36:22 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
tags: |
added: trusty vivid removed: raring |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
This bug is still present in the Ubuntu 13.10 beta1, that is with software-center 13.08-0ubuntu1.