package lintian
tags 495176 patch
thanks
* Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-15 08:47]:
> In order to solve this, lintian needs to do a more complete parsing of
> the lines before passing them on to the rules. I would suggest
> concatanating all the lines that are continuation lines into one string,
> and only then passing them on to the rules.
Attached below is a simple patch to fix the bug.
Cheers,
--
Rafael
--- scripts-svn 2008-09-11 15:42:57.000000000 +0200
+++ scripts-new 2008-09-11 16:03:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -470,7 +470,18 @@
my $cat_string = "";
my $LEADIN = qr'(?:(?:^|[`&;(|{])\s*|(?:if|then|do|while)\s+)';
+ my $previous_line = "";
while (<C>) {
+ # Concatenate lines containing continuation character (\) at the end
+ if (/\\$/) {
+ s/\\//;
+ chomp();
+ $previous_line .= $_;
+ next;
+ } else {
+ $_ = $previous_line . $_;
+ $previous_line = "";
+ }
next if m,^\s*$,; # skip empty lines
next if m,^\s*\#,; # skip comment lines
s/\#.*$//; # eat comments
