install_github() gives Error in read.dcf(path) #1900
Description
> devtools::install_github("adamMaier/reviewr")
Error in read.dcf(path) :
Found continuation line starting ' wrangling steps, ...' at begin of record.
That text "wrangling steps" comes from the DESCRIPTION file in the above repo.
This install command ran successfully in devtools 1.13.5, then I tried it under devtools 2.0.0 when it failed for my colleague and indeed it fails for me too under 2.0.0. Nothing else changed between upgrading devtools so I expect this was introduced between 1.13.5 and 2.0.0. I'm on Windows.
Looks similar to #709.