** Description changed: + SRU TEST CASE: + 1. Launch the current Ubuntu Software Center in Precise. + 2. Search for the "Darwinia" package and view the details view for it. + 3. Verify that the description text contains the error "Infectionand" near the end. + 4. Close Ubuntu Software Center. + 5. Update to the version of software-center in precise-proposed. + 6. Launch Ubuntu Software Center again and again navigate to "Darwinia". + 7. Verify that the text now correctly reads "Infection and". + + SRU REGRESSION POTENTIAL: + Very low, but if there is a regression it would likely show as an error in description text layout or content. + This happens with software-center 5.0.1.4 as shipped with Ubuntu 11.10. I have created a test package to make it easy to reproduce this. In the test package's control file the description is defined as follows: --- Description: A test package - The goal is to test that multi-line descriptions are handled correctly, - especially with regards to sentences that span more than two lines and how - spaces and line wrapping is handled. + The goal is to test that multi-line descriptions are handled correctly, + especially with regards to sentences that span more than two lines and how + spaces and line wrapping is handled. --- 'dpkg --info' shows the description exactly as it was in the control file. However in software-center the description is shown as: --- The goal is to test that multi-line descriptions are handled correctly, especially with regards to sentences that span more than two lines and howspaces and line wrapping is handled. --- Notice how the last word of line two got concatenated with first one of line three, resulting in 'howspaces', thus causing users to report typos. I'm attaching testpkg.tar.bz2. It contains: - * testpkg_1.0-1_all.deb which is the test package I mentionned above. - * testpkg, a directory containing the source for building the above package. To rebuild the package, simply do: - cd testpkg - fakeroot ./build + * testpkg_1.0-1_all.deb which is the test package I mentionned above. + * testpkg, a directory containing the source for building the above package. To rebuild the package, simply do: + cd testpkg + fakeroot ./build
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