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Bug 339282 - epkginfo can't handle newlines in <longdescription> field of metadata.xml
Summary: epkginfo can't handle newlines in <longdescription> field of metadata.xml
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Portage Tools Team
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Reported: 2010-09-30 18:09 UTC by Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED)
Modified: 2010-09-30 18:09 UTC (History)
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Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2010-09-30 18:09:11 UTC
This has bothered me for awhile but I was too lazy to file a report.

%% cat /usr/portage/mail-filter/milter-regex/metadata.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
<herd>net-mail</herd>
<maintainer>
  <email>mrness@gentoo.org</email>
    <name>Alin N?stac</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription>milter-regex is a very simple milter-based plugin that rejects or discards messages matching
regular expressions. It doesn't add much processing overhead, so even a busy mail server can afford to run it.</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>

% epkginfo mail-filter/milter-regex
Package: mail-filter/milter-regex
Herd: net-mail
Maintainer: mrness@gentoo.org
Description: regular expressions. It doesn't add much processing overhead, so even a busy mail server can afford to run it.
Location: /usr/portage/mail-filter/milter-regex
Keywords: milter-regex-1.7-r2[0]:
Keywords: milter-regex-1.8[0]: ~amd64 ~x86