fails to parse summary with colon

[minrk]

What happened?

When there is a colon in about.summary, quotation marks are stripped during recursive parsing, leading to parse errors like:

EXCEPTION: An exception occurred while parsing the recipe file
mapping values are not allowed in this context
  in "<unicode string>", line 1, column 17
0 errors and 0 warnings were found.

without any context (the actual line is 26), even with --debug.

To Reproduce

Create meta.yaml:

{% set version = "1.0" %}
{% set build = 1 %}

package:
  name: test
  version: {{ version }}

source:
  url: https://example.org/{{ version }}.tar.gz
  sha256: 83624de0178b42d37ca1f7f905e1093556c6919fe5accd3e9f11d00a66e11256

build:
  number: {{ build }}

requirements:
  build:
    - {{ compiler('c') }}
  host:
    - zlib
test:
  commands:
    - "true"

about:
  home: https://example.com
  summary: "project: description"

extra:
  recipe-maintainers:
    - minrk

Run:

crm convert --debug meta.yaml

get

EXCEPTION: An exception occurred while parsing the recipe file
mapping values are not allowed in this context
  in "<unicode string>", line 1, column 17
0 errors and 0 warnings were found.

(notably, there is no debug info in the output).

Digging in with a debugger, the problem appears to be caused by stripping quotes on the summary line, because the line:

summary: project: description

is passed to yaml to parse, instead of the actual line summary: "project: description"

Additional Details (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS 15.2, arm
• Conda Recipe Manager version 0.4.0

An easy enough workaround is to switch to

summary: |
    project: description

which parses fine

[schuylermartin45]

Noted thanks for the details! We'll get to it when we can.