Bug#816634: libdbd-xbase-perl: Extend libdbd-xbase-perl to support W type columns (cheap patch)

[Stefan Rink]

Package: libdbd-xbase-perl
Version: 1:1.05-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

this package misses a column type sometimes found in Visual FoxPro.
The Column Type is W. It stores a byte array, similar to the P column type.

Implementing the change in the patch attached solved my problem.
Without that change, the W column type just returns undef/null values upon dumping.


Please apply the attached patch. It justs inserts a single character into XBase.pm.


Regards,
Stefan



--- /usr/share/perl5/XBase.pm.orig	2013-05-26 00:01:23.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/perl5/XBase.pm	2016-03-03 16:27:18.810901565 +0100
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
 			$rproc = sub { unpack 'd', reverse scalar shift; };
 			$wproc = sub { reverse scalar pack 'd', shift; };
 		}
-		elsif ($type =~ /^[MGP]$/) {	# memo fields
+		elsif ($type =~ /^[WMGP]$/) {	# memo fields
 			my $memo = $self->{'memo'};
 			if (not defined $memo and not $self->{'openoptions'}{'ignorememo'}) {
 				$memo = $self->{'memo'} = $self->init_memo_field() or return;

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libdbd-xbase-perl depends on:
ii  perl  5.20.2-3+deb8u3

libdbd-xbase-perl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libdbd-xbase-perl suggests:
ii  libdbi-perl  1.631-3+b1

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