Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 dpkg Control: retitle -2 dpkg: normalize description fields
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 08:14:07PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Package: apt-listchanges > Version: 3.23 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@debian.org > > As reported in > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-listchanges/+bug/1854772, > apt-listchanges > fails to parse status files that contain carriage return characters, as > Python normalizes the line endings. > > Instead of writing its own ad-hoc parser, apt-listchanges should use > apt_pkg.TagFile instead. > I think it could be useful if dpkg could normalize description fields too, to make the database safer to parse. I have not checked if the output dpkg prints when reporting status is safe or not. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
