The & characters are still present on Ubunty 15.04. I've forwarded this bug report to Debian and mentioned your patch.
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #784052 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784052 ** Also affects: alsoft-conf (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784052 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Tags removed: lucid oneiric quantal raring ** Tags added: trusty utopic vivid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618060 Title: alsoft-conf labels have & in them To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsoft-conf/+bug/618060/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs