Bug 107038

Summary: pkg-config --validate doesn't moan about multi-line description
Product: pkg-config Reporter: Olly Betts <olly>
Component: srcAssignee: pkg-config
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
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Description Olly Betts 2018-06-26 05:17:28 UTC 
$ cat foo.pc
Name: foo
Description: An overly-long and pointlessly waffling description which has been
line-wrapped
URL: https://foo.example.org/
Version: 1.0
$ pkg-config --validate foo.pc && echo OK
OK
$ pkg-config --version
0.29

The documentation says:

       Files have two kinds of line: keyword lines start with a keyword plus a
       colon,  and variable definitions start with an alphanumeric string plus
       an equals sign.

So the wrapped part of the Description on line 3 should really be reported as an invalid line.
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-25 12:53:51 UTC 
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