package dctrl-tools
retitle 365795 grep-dctrl miscounts lines in error messages
thanks
Greg Ward wrote:
On 03 May 2006, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho said:
I cannot reproduce this. Please provide an input file that demonstrates
this problem (likely your available file or an excerpt; the excerpt you
provided does not trigger this problem).
Sure; my current /var/lib/dpkg/available file is here:
http://www.gerg.ca/cthulhu.gerg.ca-var-lib-dpkg-available.gz
If I download and uncompress this file I can reproduce the problem:
$ wget http://www.gerg.ca/cthulhu.gerg.ca-var-lib-dpkg-available.gz
$ gunzip cthulhu.gerg.ca-var-lib-dpkg-available.gz
$ grep-dctrl blah cthulhu.gerg.ca-var-lib-dpkg-available
grep-dctrl: cthulhu.gerg.ca-var-lib-dpkg-available:15510: expected a colon.
Thanks for the quick response, and thanks for grep-dctrl in general!
OK, I've diagnosed this.
First, grep-dctrl seems to miscount lines; the error message line number
is wrong. I'm hijacking this bug report to this issue :)
Second, look at line 14805. grep-dctrl is correct in issuing the error
message.
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