On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:05:00 +0200, tpo@sourcepole.ch wrote: > > I can confirm this behaviour (independent of the terminal width). > > The interesting point is that (besides debian/control looking as > > expected) debc and dkpkg --info present the long description in a > > sane way. > probably it's not aptitude, but the description is really wrong, since I've > seen the same problem many times in various packages and he maintainer > probably just needs to read up the spec on how sane descriptions are allowed > to be formated. I've been reading the specs (as part of the Debian Perl Group which maintains the package) and haven't found any hint yet. And - as mentioned above - the problem does not appear with debc or dpkg. Here's the stanza from the original debian/control: #v+ Description: Parses simple configuration files ConfigFile parses simple configuration files and store its values in an anonymous hash reference. The syntax of the configuration file is quite simple: . # This is a comment VALUE_ONE = foo VALUE_TWO = $VALUE_ONE/bar VALUE_THREE = The value contains a \# (hash). # This is a comment. COMPOSED_VALUE[one] = The first component of a clustered value COMPOSED_VALUE[two] = The second component of a clustered value #v- Thinking about it the behaviour is not that unexpected anymore: aptitude just wraps everything that does not start with _2_ spaces. *test* Yup, adding an additional space fixes the problem. Alright, I've commited the changes to the DPG's svn repository, could some DD please upload the new revision? gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Ostbahn-Kurti & Die Chefpartie: Arbeit
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