Actualy, I did run in the "Description Too Long" message for
texlive-latex-extra package. Obviously, the solution is to change the
static char descrBuffer[8192] for a growable buffer: assign it a
reasonnable value (8k seems to me a little bit much for simple
description texts) and resize it if it's too small.
Simple working patch attached, I'm hoping it fits your taste.
--- synaptic-0.57.11.1/common/rpackage.cc 2006-07-27 15:08:22.000000000 +0200
+++ synaptic.new/common/rpackage.cc 2007-01-03 01:52:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@
#include "raptoptions.h"
-static char descrBuffer[8192];
+static char *descrBuffer = new char[4096];
+static int descrBufferSize = 4096;
static char *parseDescription(string descr);
@@ -1179,8 +1180,11 @@
static char *parseDescription(string descr)
{
- if (descr.size() > sizeof(descrBuffer))
- return "Description Too Long";
+ if (descr.size() + 1 > descrBufferSize) {
+ delete[] descrBuffer;
+ descrBufferSize = descr.size() + 1;
+ descrBuffer = new char[descrBufferSize];
+ }
#ifdef HAVE_RPM
int parser = _config->FindI("Synaptic::descriptionParser", NO_PARSER);
