Bug#907727: source-contains-empty-directory when a patch adds a file to that directory

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Chris Lamb:
> Hi Russ,
> 
>> P: xfonts-jmk source: source-contains-empty-directory neep/ascii/
>>
>> but a patch in the quilt series adds a file to that directory. 
> 
> So, we currently loop over:
> 
>     foreach my $file ($info->sorted_orig_index) {
> 
> … which with "3.0 (quilt)" has the patches applied. I'm not sure how we
> can get the unpatched output in this case. Any ideas?
> 
> (Parsing the diffs to catch this false-positive might be a little too
> much for this corner-case.)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 

Hi Chris,

Have you checked if the src-orig-index collection
($info->{sorted_,}orig_index) has the data you want?

As I recall, it is based solely on the tarballs (i.e. no patches applied).

Thanks,
~Niels