Bug#695274: libparse-debian-packages-perl: Problem parsing stanzas with more than 1 multiline entry

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi Simon

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:11:27PM +0100, Simon Kainz wrote:
> Version: 0.03-1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
> 
> Using libparse-debain-packages-perl, the following problem arises when parsing
> stanzas with more than 1 multiline entry:
> 
> If a multiline entry is found, all lines of this entry are added to the result
> map under the key "body".
> If a different multiline entry is processed later on,
> all multiline entries are added to the same map entry "body", effectively
> mixing up content from different multiline fields.

After discussion with Gregor and Ansgar from the pkg-perl Team, we
agreed to downgrade this.

Unless I have overseen something, this does not break for any of the
Fields defined explicitly in Policy and relevant for the Packages
files.

Certaily should be fixed if possible for wheezy however.

Regards,
Salvatore
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