Bug#32210: dpkg-dev: parsechangelog cannot handle one character package names

[jdg@maths.qmw.ac.uk (Julian Gilbey)]

reassign 32210 dpkg-dev
retitle 32210 Bug#32210: dpkg-dev: parsechangelog cannot handle one character package names
thanks

> Trying to build a .deb archive of our "m" package
> (http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/M/),
> build complains about files in debian/ being ill-formatted.

The bug is in /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian, where line 54 should
be corrected to read:

-    if (m/^(\w[-+0-9a-z.]+) \(([^\(\) \t]+)\)((\s+[-0-9a-z]+)+)\;/i) {
+    if (m/^(\w[-+0-9a-z.]*) \(([^\(\) \t]+)\)((\s+[-0-9a-z]+)+)\;/i) {

   Julian

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            Julian Gilbey             Email: J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
       Dept of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary & Westfield College,
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