python-colorama: DOS line endings causing problems

John Lenton john.lenton at canonical.com
Mon Nov 17 12:14:29 UTC 2014


On 16 November 2014 10:13, Prasad Bhat <hlprasu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw that all py files from python-colorama (v0.2.5) which is used in
> Ubuntu 14.04.1 has DOS line endings (\r\n) instead of Unix line endings
> (\n).
>
> Some applications in Ubuntu have an assumption of Unix line endings in file
> causing unexpected behaviour, e.g.:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340841
>
> Is this a bug?

a user-facing program that crashes because of the line endings of a
file not being the system's default has a bug, yes.




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