Comment 1 for bug 384597

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :

Looking at the regex the negative look-ahead assertation "(?! )" should probably look for all white-space and not only " ".

Using "perl -p000 -e 's/^(?:Pre-Depends|Depends|Recommends|Suggests|Conflicts|Provides|Replaces|Breaks|Essential):.*?\n(?!\s)//msg' debian/control" will result in

Package: mplayer-nogui
Architecture: any
Section: video
Description: movie player for Unix-like systems
 MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO,
 [...]

which is probably the expected behaviour.