171974 – media-sound/audacity-1.3.2-r1: bad desktop file (?)

Bug 171974 - media-sound/audacity-1.3.2-r1: bad desktop file (?)

Summary: media-sound/audacity-1.3.2-r1: bad desktop file (?)

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169866

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-03-23 22:24 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2007-03-23 22:40 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-03-23 22:24:18 UTC

The desktop file of audacity-1.3.2-r1 can't be parsed by "update-desktop-database" (from desktop-file-utils-0.12). The command outputs the following error message:

Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/audacity.desktop': Key file contains line '?[Desktop Entry]' which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-03-23 22:27:53 UTC

$ hexdump -C /usr/share/applications/audacity.desktop | head -3
00000000  ef bb bf 5b 44 65 73 6b  74 6f 70 20 45 6e 74 72  |ï»¿[Desktop Entr|
00000010  79 5d 0a 45 6e 63 6f 64  69 6e 67 3d 55 54 46 2d  |y].Encoding=UTF-|
00000020  38 0a 0a 4e 61 6d 65 3d  41 75 64 61 63 69 74 79  |8..Name=Audacity|

The file starts with "ef bb bf" ("zero width no-break space" in UTF-8). If I remove these 3 bytes, then there is no more error message.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-23 22:40:42 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 169866 ***