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** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/772152

Title:
  unity-place-applications.menu has double-hyphen in XML comment,
  causing "cxmenu:error: unable to parse '/etc/xdg/menus/unity-place-
  applications.menu': Invalid string in comment field [Ln: 157, Col: 8]"

Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity Applications Lens:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity-place-applications” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity” source package in Natty:
  New
Status in “unity-place-applications” source package in Natty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Install unity-place-applications 0.2.46-0ubuntu3.1 from natty-proposed. Then logout and login again in the session.
  Check that the output is sane now (see below for the steps)

  
  STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
   1. Obtain an .deb for some crossover product. e.g. here's the demo for crossover-games: (32 and 64 bit)
  http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/cxgames/demo/crossover-games-demo_10.1.0-1_i386.deb
  http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/cxgames/demo/ia32-crossover-games-demo_10.1.0-1_amd64.deb

   2. Install the .deb with dpkg:
        sudo dpkg -i crossover-games-demo_10.1.0-1_i386.deb

  ACTUAL RESULTS: This output:
  Selecting previously deselected package crossover-games-demo.
  (Reading database ... 166164 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking crossover-games-demo (from crossover-games-demo_10.1.0-1_i386.deb) ...
  Setting up crossover-games-demo (10.1.0-1) ...
  cxmenu:error: unable to parse '/etc/xdg/menus/unity-place-applications.menu': Invalid string in comment field [Ln: 157, Col: 8]
  Processing triggers for menu ...

  EXPECTED RESULTS: No "cxmenu:error" line for unity-place-
  applications.menu.

  From hand-tweaking unity-place-applications.menu, I've discovered it's due to this chunk of the file:
    <!-- Note: Software Center uses an OnlyUnallocated clause to generate
      --       the System section. We can't do that because we have the All Apps
      --       section. Let's cross fingers and hope we match somewhat
      -->

  Those stray "--" markers are bad XML*, and if I remove them, this
  issue goes away. (crossover products install without any such
  warning.)

  *From https://developer.mozilla.org/en/The_Importance_of_Correct_HTML_Commenting#XML :
       For compatibility, the string "--" (double-hyphen) must not occur within comments.

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