[Cupt-devel] Bug#683982: Bug#683982: cupt: "show" should remove dots of blank lines when printing descriptions

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

severity 683982 wishlist
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Hi Manuel,

On 2012-08-06 00:44, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> I think that the dots should be removed.

Hm, I am not sure about this. Dots are natural parts of the long
description, and I'm not aware of any software doing this. Do you have
any use case why they should be better removed?

> Additionally, perhaps the Errors and Warnings should be printed to stderr, so my
> command above would work as intended :-)

They are, your redirection was attached to grep, not cupt.

> And if I understand the intention of the Errors and Warnings, I think that there
> should be only a Warning instead of an Error in the first line telling that the
> program is using not fully up-to-date files (and not the others).  The rest is
> superfluous for a normal user and common operations, IMO.

This is an error by default for security reasons to prevent [replay
attacks][1] against indexes. You can switch that off using the option
'cupt::cache::release-file-expiration::ignore'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack

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