On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:49:05 +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > In aptitude in a non-standard-width terminal the description looks like > this: > > ------------------------------ > ConfigFile parses simple configuration files and store its values in an > anonymous hash reference. The syntax of the > configuration file is quite simple: > > # This is a comment VALUE_ONE = foo VALUE_TWO = $VALUE_ONE/bar VALUE_THREE = > The value contains a \# (hash). # This > is a comment. COMPOSED_VALUE[one] = The first component of a clustered value > COMPOSED_VALUE[two] = The second > component of a clustered value > > ------------------------------
I can confirm this behaviour (independent of the terminal width). The interesting point is that (besides debian/control looking as expected) debc and dkpkg --info present the long description in a sane way. Guessing: Could this be an aptitude problem? Maybe caused by the hash (#)? gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Tom Waits: Fawn
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