configuration from cmdline doesn't override the configuration in the file

[imz]

0.84.6ubuntu5

That's how I discovered the problem.

First, run synaptic with a custom option in the command line:

# sed -ne '/description/I p' ~/.synaptic/synaptic.conf
# synaptic -o Synaptic::descriptionParser=2 # stripws parser
# sed -ne '/description/I p' ~/.synaptic/synaptic.conf 
  descriptionParser "2";
# 

Well, the option has been saved in the file, which might be unexpected, but at least explainable under a certain logic.

So, if we run synaptic again without such option, we see the "stripws" formatting of descriptions.

Now, the problem is that even specifying the option with another value now does not affect synaptic:

# synaptic -o Synaptic::descriptionParser=1 # deb parser

and we see still the "stripws" formatting.

(Ultimately, clean up from the experiment:

~# sed -ne '/description/I p' ~/.synaptic/synaptic.conf 
  descriptionParser "2";
# sed -i -e '/description/I d' ~/.synaptic/synaptic.conf