Bug#188965: dpkg-scanpackages fails getting .deb md5sum

[Arcangelo Labianca <arclab@dm.uniba.it>]

Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.9
Severity: important

Debian: 3.0 unstable

dpkg-scanpackages doesn't create the Packages file because of an error
into the script
that interpretates the normal output of md5sum as "Strange text".

Command run:
# dpkg-scanpackages debian/pool override

Output obtained:

Strange text from `md5sum <
debian/pool/main/3/3270/xfonts-x3270-misc_3.2.17-2_all.deb':
`e70e6bcc33d9094ef70dbdb4fbd7b546  -'
#

Suggested patch (obtained through diff -Naur):

--- patch start here!!! ---
--- /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages  2001-10-09 19:29:27.000000000 +0200
+++ dpkg-scanpackages   2003-04-14 09:37:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@

     open(C,"md5sum <$fn |") || die "$fn $!";
     chop($_=<C>); close(C); $? and die "\`md5sum < $fn' exited with
$?\n";
-    /^[0-9a-f]{32}$/ or die "Strange text from \`md5sum < $fn':
\`$_'\n";
-    $tv{'MD5sum'}= $_;
+    /^[0-9a-f]{32}  -$/ or die "Strange text from \`md5sum < $fn':
\`$_'\n";
+    $tv{'MD5sum'}= substr($_,0,32);

     @stat= stat($fn) or die "Couldn't stat $fn: $!\n";
     $stat[7] or die "$fn is empty\n";
--- patch end here!!! ---

After applying this patch all works as expected.

Arcangelo Labianca
arclab@dm.uniba.it