Re: no final newline in source package: how to deal with this?

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> I have a source package (xbanner) that has in it a file without a final
> newline. Of course, this breaks dpkg-source -x.
> 
> But how to fix it? Adding a final newline to the file in the patch isn't
> good enough. It seems that I have to add the final newline to the actual
> .orig.tar.gz file, ie, modify the original source.
> 
> Is there not a better way?

I'm still in the stage where I don't know why dpkg-source would want
to check for files without final newlines, and barf on it. Yes, I
do know that diff says "\no final newline" (or something similar), but
that's all perfectly normal to me, and I really don't know why dpkg-source
should be so picky on files without final newlines.


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