Comment 3 for bug 821141

Hi Andrew,

Thanks so much for reporting this bug and helping improve Checkbox and Ubuntu!

I have confirmed this bug report on an Oneiric box running Alpha 3. The troublesome text is still present in the latest development code for Checkbox.

The file you sent is fine in principle, however, since the code is under development, I see that a lot of the job descriptions have changed, thus, it's not possible to simply replace the current file with the one you sent.

So, since you mention that you did some research on producing patches, I was wondering if you'd like to take this as a learning opportunity. You could produce a patch that includes *only* the changed portion of the file using the diff command. Assume user_apps.txt.in.old is the original, flawed version and user_apps.txt.in.new is your fixed version. Then do this to generate a patch:

diff -u user_apps.txt.in.old user_apps.txt.in.new > user_apps.txt.in.patch

And attach the .patch file to the bug report. This will be easier for us to integrate into the Checkbox job files.

As an aside, if you'd like to learn more about how we collaborate developing Checkbox, among other open-source projects, the development code for checkbox is managed using the Bazaar version control tool. If you want to learn about Bazaar you can start here:

http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/

Thanks again for your contribution, please don't forget to let me know if producing/attaching the patch worked or if you have trouble doing it!

Regards,
- Daniel