package_deb.bbclass: Fix multi-line package descriptions

In deb control files, each line of a long description starts with
a single space. Empty lines are represented by a single space
followed by a single full stop character.

(From OE-Core rev: f66278f471c0bf9421ce2c55a56a144a0f9332bf)

Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass b/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
index 1f1bc81e14..3cd5efa788 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass
@@ -176,10 +176,7 @@ python do_package_deb () {
                  if '\\n' in description:
                      # Manually indent
                      for t in description.split('\\n'):
-                         # We don't limit the width when manually indent, but we do
-                         # need the textwrap.fill() to set the initial_indent and
-                         # subsequent_indent, so set a large width
-                         ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(t, width=100000, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
+                         ctrlfile.write(' %s\n' % (t.strip() or '.'))
                  else:
                      # Auto indent
                      ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(description.strip(), width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))