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[Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  software-center mishandles the description paragraphs

Status in software-center package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  software-center extends paragraphs across empty lines whenever the preceding line does not end with a full stop or semi-colon or other punctuation.
  To reproduce this bug download the attached package, testpara_1.0-1_all.deb, and open it in software-center. The description should be displayed as follows:

  ---
   First paragraph.

    On recent Debian and Ubuntu 64-bit distributions this package requires
    multiarch to be enabled before it can be installed. To ensure this is the
    case run the following commands as root first:

    sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

    sudo apt-get update
  ---

  But instead the two sudo lines are put on one line and thus rendered
  meaningless:

  ---
  [...]
    sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update
  ---

  I'm also attaching:
   * A tar file containing the source for the test package.
   * A screenshot showing the description being rendered incorrectly in software-center, and correctly in gdebi-gtk.

  See alo the Debian policy concerning the description field:
  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: software-center 5.6.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Apr 29 18:36:22 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-29 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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