Bug#695274: libparse-debian-packages-perl: Problem parsing stanzas with more than 1 multiline entry

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Sun Mar 2 23:03:09 UTC 2014


On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:20:22 +0100, Simon Kainz wrote:

> >I'd like to have some more review to see if this is the best way to
> >fix it, and if there are some cases where this might cause problems.
> >(E.g. I'm no sure when the description was dropped from the Packages
> >file.)
> Which data did you use for your tests? I used ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Me too :)

> which contains a Description: Field for every packaged in this file.

Sorry for being unclear.
I meant the Package file only contains the one-line short
description, but not the multi-line indented long description
anymore. 


Cheers,
gregor

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