Bug#515213: Incorrect syntax in watchfile leads to mangling not being applied

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sat Feb 14 21:05:38 UTC 2009


Package: libmail-sendmail-perl
Version: 0.79.16-1
Severity: minor

Hi,

The uversionmangle syntax added in the latest (fsvo latest :-) upload of
libmail-sendmail-perl is slightly incorrect, which means the mangling
isn't actually being applied.

The watch file contains this

	opts=uversionmangle="s/_/./"

whereas it should contain

	opts="uversionmangle=s/_/./" \
or
	opts=uversionmangle=s/_/./ \


i.e. if you're going to use quotes, then they belong around the whole
option string. In this case, however, they're not required as there
aren't any spaces in the options.

See #515209 for a bug report against uscan which lead to my noticing
this.

Regards,

Adam





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