Gregory T. Norris writes ("Bug#43269: [PATCH] error in count of entries
written"):
...
> If dpkg-scanpackages is invoked to process an empty directory, it will
> output the message `Wrote entries to output Packages file.'... note
> that the entries-written field is blank. I am enclosing a small patch
> which corrects this.Thanks, I've applied your patch to my tree. Ian.

