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Bug#286054: tasksel: significant trailing whitespace in .desc



Quoting dann frazier (dannf@hp.com):
> 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.

That's strange as indeed, no "Key:" line in tasks/*desc has a trailing
space.





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