Ubuntu
xscreensaver package

syntax error in desktop file

Bug #1871797 reported by Laurent Bonnaud on 2020-04-09

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xscreensaver (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #920753
	xscreensaver (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

when I install this package, I get the following error message:

Could not parse file "/usr/share/applications/screensavers/glitchpeg.desktop": Key file contains line ?several times a second. After a while, finds a new image to corrupt. Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2018.? which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xscreensaver-data-extra 5.42+dfsg1-1ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 5.6.3-050603-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu25
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Thu Apr 9 10:37:19 2020
SourcePackage: xscreensaver
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) wrote on 2020-04-09:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (332 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Bill McGonigle (bill-launchpad-net) wrote on 2020-04-24:

remove spurious newline Edit (748 bytes, text/plain)

not a proper source patch, but shows the line that needs fixing to stop complaints under apt.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2020-04-24:

The attachment "remove spurious newline" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

tags:

added: patch

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-05-06:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xscreensaver (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Nathan Rennie-Waldock (nathan-renniewaldock) on 2020-10-28

Changed in xscreensaver (Debian):
importance:	Undecided → Unknown
status:	New → Unknown

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2020-10-30

Changed in xscreensaver (Debian):
status:	Unknown → Fix Committed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2021-02-27

Changed in xscreensaver (Debian):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) on 2021-04-05

tags:

added: groovy hirsute

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Bayu Aditya H. (bayuah) wrote on 2021-08-14:

So, when the fix applied to the release? This is more than 4 months since the fix available.

I remember, maybe a month ago, I manually edit "/usr/share/applications/screensavers/glitchpeg.desktop" to remove the newline, but for some reason, the file is overwritten to the old one that broken, probably during "apt upgrade".

$ ls --full-time /usr/share/applications/screensavers/glitchpeg.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389 2019-01-28 04:40:05.000000000 +0700 /usr/share/applications/screensavers/glitchpeg.desktop

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote on 2022-02-01:

In my experience, small issues like this will seldom be fixed in the old release (20.04). It is a small enough fix, but there is enough "paperwork" involved (SRU process) that nobody will take their time for this.

I would recommend installing the 6.02 version from my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
(This is the original Debian version, so without the Ubuntu branding.)

If you make a local modification of the file, it will be overwritten next time the package is upgraded or reinstalled. The package in 20.04 has not been updated since the release though.

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Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) wrote on 2023-03-30:

The fixed version is now in Ubuntu.
Thanks!