Bug#286054: tasksel: significant trailing whitespace in .desc
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.17
Severity: normal
tasksel kept printing messages when parsing my .desc file:
parse error in stanza 3 of /usr/share/tasksel/foo.desc
parse error in stanza 3 of /usr/share/tasksel/foo.desc
Seems the error was with the Key field.
To silence those errors, I needed to leave a trailing space after "Key:" or
I would get an error for each package listed below it.
I don't know if this part of the rfc-822 standard; seems like it doesn't add
any information to me. If it is, I'd suggest mentioning this in the README,
and changing the example in the README to include this space.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-mckinley
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.2.15.8-1 terminal-based apt frontend
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.41 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.01-17 Using libc functions for internati
-- debconf information excluded
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