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[Chad Miller <chad.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kep this from happening again.

The old "|sed" way perserved many line. The new function call that has
"|read" and echo first, only yields the first entry.

** Patch added: "add tests."
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/xdg-utils/+bug/1517956/+attachment/4522191/+files/fdbug118501-many-execs-in-desktop-files.diff

** Summary changed:

- xdg-settings assumes desktop files have exactly one Exec line
+ xdg-settings (used to) assume desktop files have exactly one Exec line

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Title:
  xdg-settings (used to) assume desktop files have exactly one Exec line

Status in Xdg-utils:
  Confirmed
Status in xdg-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  In searching the desktop file for suitability, it scans for all lines
  that begin "Exec", and takes the result and packs it into a variable.

  If there is exactly one Exec line, this takes out a command name to
  test for existence, but when more than one matches, the program name
  is captured as "firstexecprog\nsecondexecprog\nthirdexecprog", and
  "which" doesn't know how to look up a program like that and the
  subsequent tests fail.

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