Bug#6871: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source and final newlines
> But I'm still not very happy with this. It's pretty obvious that you
> don't want to go around editing binary files that are in source
> packages. It's far less obvious that editing plain text files that
> happen to lack a trailing newline will break things.
I'm quite sure the dpkg-source *does* now tolerate cases, i.e., if
file foo has no final newline in the upstream source, but does have
one in the debian version. No? Am I wrong?
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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