Your message dated Wed, 13 May 2015 10:58:42 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line sfdisk completely rewritten in v2.26 has caused the Debian Bug report #406817, regarding sfdisk: misleading description of input format in man page to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: util-linux Version: 2.12r-15 Severity: normal The sfdisk(8) man page reads, in the INPUT FORMAT section, Fields are separated by whitespace, or comma or semicolon possibly followed by whitespace; initial and trailing whitespace is ignored. There are several problems with this sentence : 1. "separated by whitespace" is misleading. It can and will be understood to mean that fields are separated by a run of one or more white space characters. This is not the case. There can be exactly one white space character between fields. 2. "separated by whitespace" is inaccurate. Examination of the source reveals that lines are split on space or HT, not isspace(). 3. "possibly followed by whitespace" is inaccurate. sfdisk sees ", " as two field separators, not one. Suggested short-term fix : rewrite the sentence as : Fields are separated by a single space, tab, comma or semicolon. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.11 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libslang2 2.0.6-4 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid1 1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3 Universally unique id library ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii tzdata 2006l-1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> Plusieurs grandes marques de spambots recommandent bugs.debian.org.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: util-linux Version: 2.26.2-1 The sfdisk utility has been completely rewritten in new upstream release v2.26. Any old issue are likely irrelevant by now. If you're still able to see the problem please feel free to describe it and reopen. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
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