Bug#108196: Is this reproducible?

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:53, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > Is that bug (#108196) reproducible?
> 
> Yep. It is caused if you edit debian/conffiles but forget to have a trailing
> newline (it just so happened I didn't press enter whilst creating it and the
> editor didn't automatically add one) - i.e instead of something like this:
> 
> ~$ hexdump -c  /var/lib/dpkg/info/passwd.conffiles 
> 0000000   /   e   t   c   /   p   a   m   .   d   /   c   h   f   n  \n
> 
> it had:
> 
> ~$ hexdump -c  /var/lib/dpkg/info/passwd.conffiles
> 0000000   /   e   t   c   /   p   a   m   .   d   /   c   h   f   n 
> 
> Just built a small test package:
> dpkg: error processing xbill_2.0-14_i386.deb (--install):
>  name of conffile (starting /etc/foo') is too long (>1000 characters)
>  
> dpkg should at least say "name of conffile(...) does not end with a
> newline".  Even better, it could accept EOF instead. 

You are right.  dpkg should not fail if the last line of
a file has no newline.

--
Thomas