Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12r-15
Severity: normal
The sfdisk(8) man page reads, in the INPUT FORMAT section,
Fields are separated by whitespace, or comma or semicolon
possibly followed by whitespace; initial and trailing
whitespace is ignored.
There are several problems with this sentence :
1. "separated by whitespace" is misleading. It can and will be
understood to mean that fields are separated by a run of one or
more white space characters. This is not the case. There can be
exactly one white space character between fields.
2. "separated by whitespace" is inaccurate. Examination of the
source reveals that lines are split on space or HT, not isspace().
3. "possibly followed by whitespace" is inaccurate. sfdisk sees ", "
as two field separators, not one.
Suggested short-term fix : rewrite the sentence as :
Fields are separated by a single space, tab, comma or semicolon.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libslang2 2.0.6-4 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii libuuid1 1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3 Universally unique id library
ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii tzdata 2006l-1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
util-linux recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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