Debian Bug report logs - #579668
postfix: should use "${Newline}" instead of "${Newline} " in debian/vars.in

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-i18n@lists.debian.org, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org

Subject: postfix: should use "${Newline}" instead of "${Newline} " in debian/vars.in

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:18:27 +0200

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Package: postfix
Severity: normal

From a discussion in -i18n, followed up in -dpkg....

Postfix packages descriptions are now prepended by two spaces, making
them hard-formatted and looking ugly on packages.debian.org.

Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org):
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Description: CDB map support for Postfix
> >  ${Description}
> >  .
> >  This provides support for CDB (constant database) maps in Postfix. If you
> >  plan to use CDB maps with Postfix, you need this.
> > 
> > the source tree also has debian/vars.in:
> > 
> > Description=Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail transport agent that started life as an${Newline} alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
> >   Postfix attempts to${Newline} be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being${Newline} sendmail compatible enough to
> > not upset existing users. Thus, the outside${Newline} has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.
> > 
> [...]
> > The problem, here, is that, apparently ${Newline} gets expanded 
> > to "\n " and not "\n".
> 
> ${Newline} gets expanded to "\n" but the substvar substitution is
> done on the content of the field after it has been parsed and not before
> which means that you don't get to see/deal with the initial space any
> more.
> 
> This was probably different in older version of dpkg-dev but it has never
> been codified one way or another. The current approach is cleaner as you
> can put any value in the substvar and it should work. Before if you forgot
> the space you would have generated something invalid...
> 
> This was changed in dpkg-dev 1.15.5. I would suggest to fix postfix
> to match the new behaviour (and build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.15.5)
> to avoid problems with older dpkg-dev).
> 
> I just added a paragraph in deb-substvars(5) to document this behaviour.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Raphaël Hertzog
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Message #12 received at 579668-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>

To: 589538-done@bugs.debian.org, 591991-done@bugs.debian.org, 601128-done@bugs.debian.org, 579668-done@bugs.debian.org, 592920-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>

Subject: Bugs closed

Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:14:34 +0100

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Version: 2.7.1-2

For whatever reason, these bugs weren't closed when the version where
they are really fixed was uploaded. Hence doing so. I hope you won't
mind, Lamont.

(found this while tracking old opened l10n bugs)

It seems that bugs fixed by later versions weren't properly closed,
too. I'll do so as well.

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