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

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 16:25:05 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> 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).

Ack.
 
> >> 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!

D'oh! Sorry for missing the actual problem so long, and thanks for
pushing me unto the right track.
 
Cheers,
gregor

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