Bug#565302: Use of uninitialized value $next in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 179

To: pmatthaei@debian.org
Cc: 565302@bugs.debian.org, Debian Bug <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#565302: Use of uninitialized value $next in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 179
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:32:08 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 87iqb4h713.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Reply-to: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 565302@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 4B4F5634.4030002@debian.org> ("Patrick Matthäi"'s message of "Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:36:52 +0100")
References: <[🔎] 4B4F5634.4030002@debian.org>

Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org> writes:

> on parsing this changelog (I have attached the whole .deb file) lintian
> gives me this warning:

> me@exez:~/build$ lintian -IE --pedantic
> usb-modeswitch-data_20100110-1_all.deb
> Use of uninitialized value $next in pattern match (m//) at
> /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 179, <IN> line 10.
> P: usb-modeswitch-data: no-upstream-changelog

Yeah, sorry about that.  Will be fixed in the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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