Re: locale version symmetry problem

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:42:50 +0200,
Gerhard Tonn wrote:
> On Thursday 17 April 2003 19:32, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> 
> > > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I've encountered what I think is a bug in the libc6 build process, but
> > I want to make sure its a bug before I report it.
> >
> > When picking up your libc6, I added some of our patches and rebuilt it
> > with the version 2.3.1-16.lindows1. Upon doing so, locales fails to
> > install because it depends on glibc-2.3.1-16.lindows1 but the provides
> > line for libc6 is only glibc-2.3.1-16. I see that in the file
> > debian/debver2localesdep.pl you remove the version info after the .,
> > and commenting that code out fixes the problem.
> 
> Could you give the following patch a try. It preserves the binary NMU fix, 
> but doesn't assume that the source NMU revision is numeric.
> 
> Gerhard
> 
> --- debian/debver2localesdep.pl.bak     Fri Apr 18 11:18:20 2003
> +++ debian/debver2localesdep.pl Fri Apr 18 11:18:55 2003
> @@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
>  @revs = split('\.', $devrev);
>  
>  $devrev = $revs[0];
> -$devrev = "$devrev.$revs[1]" if defined($revs[1]) and $revs[1] > 0;
> +$devrev = "$devrev.$revs[1]" if defined($revs[1]) and $revs[1] ne "0";
>  
>  print "glibc-$debver-$devrev\n";

Looks fine.  I've committed in it, thanks!  

Michael, please apply this kind of patch with your deb until we
release new version.

Regards,
-- gotom