Bug#473710: If a configuration file line is too long, report which file has the problem.

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.12
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

  If apt encounters a configuration file with lines longer than 1024
characters, it prints the cryptic message:

Line N too long (max 1024)

  It would help immensely in debugging these problems if apt instead
printed:

Filename: Line N too long (max 1024)

  The attached patch does just this; I'll push it to the mainline branch
if it looks reasonable to everyone else. (the code is also available at
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/bzr/apt-improve-configuration-parsing)

  Of course, apt also shouldn't conk out if a line is more than 1024
characters long, but that will require more work; fixing the error
message is trivial.

  Daniel

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-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.0-2  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.0-2    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

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