tasksel breaks if short descriptions contain commas

[Delan Azabani]

When running tasksel:

root@delan1:/# tasksel
tasksel: task ubuntustudio-audio-plugins contains a comma in its short description: "LADSPA, LV2, and DSSI audio plugins"
tasksel: task ubuntustudio-audio-plugins contains a comma in its short description: "LADSPA, LV2, and DSSI audio plugins"

Under "Kubuntu netbook", there are three items:

[ ] LADSPA
[ ] LV2
[ ] and DSSI audio plugins

(Note that this precise symptom is no longer present because it's been worked around, but the underlying bug is still there. --cjwatson)

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Delan
Is this in maverick?

[Delan Azabani (azabani)]

No, this is in natty only. In maverick it is "LADSPA and DSSI audio plugins" so there is no problem.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is a tasksel bug with comma handling, but we're going to work around it in the task description.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

In consultation with Scott Lavender, I've worked around this as follows:

tasksel (2.88ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * Update Ubuntu tasks from seeds, adjusting ubuntustudio-audio-plugins'
    short description to work around LP #690560. Thanks, Scott Lavender.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:45:28 +0000

The fact that things break when you include a comma in a short task description is still a tasksel bug, so I'm leaving this bug open for that, but it's not urgent.