aptitude why error message has no newline

[Brian Beck]

Binary package hint: aptitude

At the command prompt when you type "aptitude why" you get the following:

why: this command requires at least one argument (the package to query).bbeck@tardis:~$

Notice there is no newline after the error message so the prompt is directly after the error message. It should appear like so:

why: this command requires at least one argument (the package to query).
bbeck@tardis:~$

My version information:
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

aptitude:
  Installed: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu10
  Candidate: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu10
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu10 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I have attached a patch, and I believe this problem is solved in later versions of aptitude, so there may be not much benefit pushing upstream.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

I have generated a debdiff for this. It's attached.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you send the change to the Debian BTS as well (bugs.debian.org)?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This problem is fixed in maverick, the code reads now:

      fprintf(stderr, _("%s: this command requires at least one argument (the package to query).\n"),

I don't think we can backport that easily to lucid as it does break a lot of translation. Unless someone tries to manually unfuzzy?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I set this to Won't fix for now, but we can reopen it if its feasible to manually unfuzzy the strings.