Bug#806581: libstring-expand-perl: missing (wrongly expaned?) word in long description

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Jonas wrote ~5 hours ago:
> Packaging tools does some variable expansion on control file.

Gregor wrote ~3 hours ago:
> Or "displaying tools". Where do you see the sentence like this?
[...]
> I can reproduce the missing word when building the package and calling 
> debc.


Jonas wrote ~3 hours ago:
> the ${NAME} syntax was _exactly_ what I suspected: That syntax is 
> expanded¹ by packaging tools.
[...]
> ¹ Used most often for e.g. ${misc:Depends} but also applies within 
> long description - see fonts-noto for an example where statistics 
> gathered at build time is included in long description.

Gregor wrote ~1 hour ago:
> Yes, but that's dpkg-gencontrol etc. during _build_; there's no good 
> reason IMO to do variable substitution when _displaying_ the text.

I prefectly agree.  Seems to me that I was talking about packaging time 
all along, whereas _you_ introduces visualizers (seems debc merely 
_emulates_ display of long description from unbuilt source).


>> To preserve, escape the dollar:
>>
>>> [...] namely, in the form $NAME or \${NAME}.
>>
>> ...or perhaps \{ does the trick, not quite sure...
>
> Yup, trying something like this might make more sense than to find out 
> which tools display it incorrectly.

Please forget about visualizers: Try grab the .deb package (e.g. wget 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libs/libstring-expand-perl/libstring-expand-perl_0.04-2_all.deb) 
and dig out its control file (I use Midnight Commander for that) and 
look at the raw file - the word is missing!

(I guess you confuse this with e.g. indented bulleted strings, which is 
merely a consensus among some visualizers).


 - Jonas

-- 
 * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
 * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/

 [x] quote me freely  [ ] ask before reusing  [ ] keep private
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-perl-maintainers/attachments/20151129/7153e69e/attachment.sig>