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Re: Bug #179320 continues to haunt people.



Kipp Cannon wrote:
> I think dselect should not crash no matter how out of spec a package might
> be, and it certainly should not be crashed by a package that is
> automatically generated by another Debian tool;  so it would be nice if
> either dselect could be fixed or alien modified so as to not produce
> description texts that trigger the bug.

It's really not fair to say that alien produces descriptions that
trigger the bug; it's not as if I'm adding very long lines to package
descriptions in alien. Alien simply uses whatever package description is
in the rpm, and any long lines are preserved.

-- 
see shy jo

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