[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51017] geometry package DESCRIPTION format errors

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51017>

                 Summary: geometry package DESCRIPTION format errors
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Fri 12 May 2017 02:25:14 PM PDT
                Category: Octave Forge Package
                Severity: 2 - Minor
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: Patch Submitted
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: other
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

The geometry package DESCRIPTION file contains some syntax / formatting
errors. If a field is folded onto more than one line, the following lines must
start with a single leading space character to indicate that they are
continuation lines and not the start of a new field.

The fields Author and Description look like they are supposed to consist of
multiple lines, but they are missing leading spaces on continuation lines.
When installing the package, the message "skipping line" is printed four
times, and the fields contain incomplete data.

Also Philip Nienhuis' name is misspelled in the Authors field, and there is a
spurious trailing comma.

The following inline patch fixes all of these issues


diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ Name: geometry
 Version: 3.0.0
 Date: 27-03-2017
 Author: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>,
-Philip Neuhius <address@hidden>,
-Simeon Simeonov <address@hidden>,
-David Legland <address@hidden>,
+ Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden>,
+ Simeon Simeonov <address@hidden>,
+ David Legland <address@hidden>
 Maintainer: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
 Title: Computational Geometry
 Description: Library for geometric computing extending MatGeom functions.
-Useful to create, transform, manipulate and display geometric primitives.
+ Useful to create, transform, manipulate and display geometric primitives.
 Depends: octave (>= 4.2.0)
 Autoload: no
 License: GPLv3+, FreeBSD, Boost v1.0





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