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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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