Package: postfix
Severity: normal
From a discussion in -i18n, followed up in -dpkg....
Postfix packages descriptions are now prepended by two spaces, making
them hard-formatted and looking ugly on packages.debian.org.
Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org):
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Description: CDB map support for Postfix
> > ${Description}
> > .
> > This provides support for CDB (constant database) maps in Postfix. If you
> > plan to use CDB maps with Postfix, you need this.
> >
> > the source tree also has debian/vars.in:
> >
> > Description=Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail transport agent that started life as an${Newline} alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
> > Postfix attempts to${Newline} be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being${Newline} sendmail compatible enough to
> > not upset existing users. Thus, the outside${Newline} has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.
> >
> [...]
> > The problem, here, is that, apparently ${Newline} gets expanded
> > to "\n " and not "\n".
>
> ${Newline} gets expanded to "\n" but the substvar substitution is
> done on the content of the field after it has been parsed and not before
> which means that you don't get to see/deal with the initial space any
> more.
>
> This was probably different in older version of dpkg-dev but it has never
> been codified one way or another. The current approach is cleaner as you
> can put any value in the substvar and it should work. Before if you forgot
> the space you would have generated something invalid...
>
> This was changed in dpkg-dev 1.15.5. I would suggest to fix postfix
> to match the new behaviour (and build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.15.5)
> to avoid problems with older dpkg-dev).
>
> I just added a paragraph in deb-substvars(5) to document this behaviour.
>
> Cheers,
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