Confirmed. It seems the duck.cow file was mangled (or else uses a different syntax to all the other .cow files).
Attached is a fixed version of duck.cow -- it works for me. Not that I am an expert on ASCII art ducks...! I may get a debdiff here later tonight... ** Attachment added: "Corrected duck.cow file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19745423/duck.cow ** Changed in: cowsay (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- cowsay -f duck saysomethingrandom fails due to syntax error in duck.cow file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299238 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs