Package: debian-el
Version: 29.3-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi. Selecting * Generate menu * from the Bugs menu while reporting a
bug in the bash package results in this error message:
Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 1795, 22379
The problem appears to be bug #443984 in the list of bash bugs, which
has a \ in the short bug description, and this isn't quoted when
debian-bug-build-bug-menu attempts to build the menu. The following
simple patch seems to fix it.
--- a/elisp/debian-el/debian-bug.el 2007-09-25 00:25:00.000000000 +0000
+++ b/elisp/debian-el/debian-bug.el 2008-06-23 09:27:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1862,10 +1862,10 @@
(save-excursion
(set-buffer debian-bug-tmp-buffer)
(insert
- "[\"" (if (< 60 (length description))
- (substring description 0 60)
- description)
- "\" (debian-bug-menu-action \"" bugnumber "\")"
+ "[" (format "%S" (if (< 60 (length description))
+ (substring description 0 60)
+ description))
+ " (debian-bug-menu-action \"" bugnumber "\")"
" :active "
(if bugs-are-open-flag
"t"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debian-el depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii emacs [emacsen] 22.2+2-2 The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
ii emacs21 [emacsen] 21.4a+1-5.4 The GNU Emacs editor
ii emacs22 [emacsen] 22.2+2-2 The GNU Emacs editor
ii reportbug 3.41 reports bugs in the Debian distrib
ii xemacs21-mule [emac 21.4.21-3 highly customizable text editor --
Versions of packages debian-el recommends:
ii dlocate 0.94 fast alternative to dpkg -L and dp
ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-20 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii wget 1.11.3-1 retrieves files from the web
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