[Bug 253188] New: Use regular expressions in kompare causes "could not parse diff output"

[Alessandro Ghersi]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253188

           Summary: Use regular expressions in kompare causes "could not
                    parse diff output"
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: alessandro-ghersi at kubuntu.org


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 1.2) 
OS:                Linux

Bug reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdesdk/+bug/303502

Add in a regular expression, eg Settings, configure Kompare, Diff, Options tab
and click 'Ignore regexp'. I used ^Version as the regular expression. Close
kompare and execute the following

william at caracal:/tmp$ mkdir dir1 dir2
william at caracal:/tmp$ touch dir1/abc.txt dir2/abc.txt
william at caracal:/tmp$
william at caracal:/tmp$ kompare dir1 dir2 &

A dialog stating "could not parse output" appear making the program unusable.
This is a regression from Ubuntu 8.04.

william at caracal:/tmp$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
Release:    8.10

william at caracal:/tmp$ apt-cache policy kompare
kompare:
  Installed: 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.1.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
william at caracal:/tmp$

Reproducible: Didn't try

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