package grep-dctrl
clone 205044 -1 -2
retitle 205044 grep-dctrl parser is stricter than before
tag 205044 + wontfix
submitter -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
retitle -1 grep-dctrl should include file and line info in errors
submitter -2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
retitle -2 grep-dctrl parser is broken
thanks
Greg Ward wrote:
> Package: grep-dctrl
> Version: 2.6.7
> Followup-For: Bug #205044
Thanks for the report.
This should have been a separate report and not a followup, since you're
reporting about poor error reporting, not discussing the "unexpected end
of line" problem. (Incidentally, you do discuss it, and that too would
rate a different report, as it's different from the #205044 one.)
> I have also been bitten by the mysterious "Unexpected end of line" error
> message. I haven't been able to use grep-dctrl for many months because
> of it, and I finally sat down tonight to figure out why. Turns out
> there's an invalid entry in my /var/lib/dpkg/{available,status} files,
> so I can't blame grep-dctrl for barfing. (And I suspect grep-dctrl
> broke for me the day I installed the package in question. Which, BTW,
> is Nero, a closed-source commercial program, not part of Debian... so
> clearly the real blame lies with Nero for distributing a bad .deb file.)
I see no problems with that entry. The grep-dctrl parser is definitely
broken here.
I'm working on both problems as I write this. Thanks for the report.
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