apt show gibberish in package description
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I am not sure whether to report this bug against apt, the vim-snipmate package, or as a translation bug. It seems to be located in the en_GB translation of the package description for vim-snipmate.
On my Ubuntu Vivid (locale en_GB) the output of "apt show vim-snipmate" contains this section:
--- snip ---
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
.
Project-
Report-
POT-Creation-Date: 2014-09-03 08:41+0200
PO-Revision-Date: 2014-05-06 13:30+0000
Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>
Language-Team: English (United Kingdom) <email address hidden>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-
X-Launchpad-
X-Generator: Launchpad (build 17196)
.
To go to the next item in the loop, simply <tab> over to it; if there is
--- snip ---
The middle part starting with "Project-
Grepping through /var/lib/apt I have found the injected bit in the vim-snipmate description in
/var/lib/
It is not present in the vim-snipmate description in
/var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: apt 1.0.9.7ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Oct 9 15:01:02 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-28 (740 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-05-27 (135 days ago)