The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit d3b995a4d90412d29077c512021df1545acdb7ef
Author: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Nov 19 18:46:32 2011 +0100
dpkg-gensymbols: output a warning when a pattern doesn't match any file
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9844d1c..373c6e2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ dpkg (1.16.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
updates. Closes: #642608
Add libfile-fcntllock-perl to dpkg-dev's Depends since we use this module
to handle the locking.
+ * Update dpkg-gensymbols(1) to clarify that -e accepts shell patterns
+ expansions and not regular expressions. And let dpkg-gensymbols output a
+ warning when a pattern doesn't match any file. Closes: #649248
[ Jonathan Nieder ]
* Bump po4a version in Build-Depends to 0.41, since earlier versions do
diff --git a/scripts/dpkg-gensymbols.pl b/scripts/dpkg-gensymbols.pl
index 0fb96c0..a6c73ad 100755
--- a/scripts/dpkg-gensymbols.pl
+++ b/scripts/dpkg-gensymbols.pl
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ while (@ARGV) {
if (-e $file) {
push @files, $file;
} else {
- push @files, glob($file);
+ my @to_add = glob($file);
+ push @files, @to_add;
+ warning(_g("pattern '%s' did not match any file"), $file)
+ unless scalar(@to_add);
}
} elsif (m/^-p(.*)/) {
error(_g("Illegal package name \`%s'"), $1);
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