On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> wrote: > $ apt-cache show dpkg > Package: at (I was surprised for a second) > It doesn't happen for all packages, for example for "apt" there's just one > Description-md5 field. > > The field is present only once in the Packages index. Somehow I managed to replace one assumption with another one *doh* I blame the testcases … (okay, two, but the commit mentions the Description-is-not-first-field one and that should be pretty safe) … The problem is here that "apt-cache show" is displaying the stanza from the start till the first "\nDescription" string. At that point it prints whatever it thinks is the Description the user actually wants to see – and now also the Description-md5: field right after it. After that it looks for the end of the Description* field(s) and displays the rest of the stanza. Works of course only as long as you have no field in between "Description" and "Description-md5" – which you have if the package has e.g. a Multi-Arch flag as this one is in-between for some reason (was that always the case? My brain somehow believes that it was sorted far more at the top). Attached patch should fix that by skipping over Description fields in the "left-over" of the buffer after the first Description field. (lets see what I did wrong this time, I am starting to get a track record) Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: Thanks for pinging 647590, I guess it can be forcemerged, but as a said back then I am not sure if other commands don't do silly stuff while a Desc is missing. They should be okay, now that the internal stuff is corrected, but I will have to check that to be sure before actually closing this one.
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