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 -- no debconf information
--- /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;