Bug#563585: Use of uninitialized value $next in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 179, <IN> line 6.
Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonaccorso@gmail.com> writes:
> Checking a package (in my case dh-make-perl and libmodule-build-perl)
> I get a warning from lintian:
> Use of uninitialized value $next in pattern match (m//) at
> /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 179, <IN> line 6.
> It is related to the NEWS file only having one entry, and thus $next
> uninitialized?
It's exactly the problem that the tag is trying to diagnose (there isn't a
blank line after the entry), but I didn't write the test properly.
Thanks! Will be fixed in the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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