Bug#436928: alien-arena: Wrapper script help text formatted wrongly

Marc-Jano Knopp pub_br_debian.org at marc-jano.de
Thu Aug 9 14:39:15 UTC 2007


Package: alien-arena
Version: 6.05-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The wrapper script's help-text contains backslash-escaped characters which
do not get interpreted:

------ snip ------
$ alien-arena -h
Alien Arena client wrapper\nThis script is Debian specific, it is *NOT* part of the source distribution!\nUsage: alien-arena [OPTION] [PARAMETERS]...\n\n -h, --help\t\tDisplay this help\n -q, --quiet\t\tDisable console output\n [PARAMETERS]\tPass internal parameters to the client\n\nMore information on using this script can be found in the alien-arena(6) man page.\n
$
------ snip ------

Solution:

  Replace
  
    echo ${USAGE}

  with

    echo -e ${USAGE}


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alien-arena depends on:
ii  alien-arena-data              6.05-1     Game data files for Alien Arena
ii  libc6                         2.6-2      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      6.5.2-7    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]        6.5.2-7    The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libjpeg62                     6b-13      The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libsdl1.2debian               1.2.11-8   Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.3-2  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxxf86dga1                  2:1.0.1-2  X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii  libxxf86vm1                   1:1.0.1-2  X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

alien-arena recommends no packages.

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