Bug#958746: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: URLs in patch descriptions mangled (treated as fields?)

[Ryan Pavlik]

Package: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl
Version: 2.132~bpo10+1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

I have used cme edit dpkg to modify metadata on some patches (which were produced with
gbp pq). The description of one of those patches (deriving from the commit message)
has a (final) line that starts with a url.

After modifying that patch, the description is mangled:
the URL is moved above the rest of the description and separated by blank lines,
and there is a space inserted after https:

I expected that only my manual changes, plus any re-ordering due to differing opinions
between gbp-pq and cme, would have been made, not modifying the line
with the URL.

(My suspicion is that it parsed the https: as a RFC882 header name, so it formatted
that "field" with a space between the header/field name and the "contents".)

Thank you,

Ryan Pavlik


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libconfig-model-dpkg-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                          12.9~bpo10+1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                    0.1.34+b1
ii  libarray-intspan-perl              2.003-1
ii  libconfig-model-backend-yaml-perl  2.133-2
ii  libconfig-model-perl               2.133-1
ii  libexporter-lite-perl              0.08-1
ii  liblog-log4perl-perl               1.49-1
ii  libmouse-perl                      2.5.6-1+b1
ii  libparse-recdescent-perl           1.967015+dfsg-2
ii  libsoftware-licensemoreutils-perl  1.004-1
ii  libsort-versions-perl              1.62-1
ii  libtext-autoformat-perl            1.740000-2
ii  libtext-levenshtein-damerau-perl   0.41-1
ii  liburi-perl                        1.76-1
ii  libwww-perl                        6.36-2
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl               0.76+repack-1
ii  licensecheck                       3.0.46-1~bpo10+1
ii  lintian                            2.65.0~bpo10+1
ii  perl [libmodule-corelist-perl]     5.28.1-6

Versions of packages libconfig-model-dpkg-perl recommends:
ii  libconfig-model-tkui-perl  1.369-2

libconfig-model-dpkg-perl suggests no packages.

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