Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

[Zoltan Ivanfi <ifi@fw.hu>]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick replies.

>> Are there any serious initiatives, with traction?

> dpkg has a horribly long list of bugs and feature requests. I doubt
> that there is serious action to resolve this one in dpkg1, but rumor
> goes that about dpkg2.

Wouldn't the following simple solution work?

--- /usr/bin/dpkg-source        2004-11-11 21:15:52.000000000 +0100
+++ /home/ifi/bin/dpkg-source   2004-12-08 14:45:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
                    $ENV{'LC_ALL'}= 'C';
                    $ENV{'LANG'}= 'C';
                    $ENV{'TZ'}= 'UTC0';
-                    exec('diff','-u',
+                    exec('diff','-au',
                          '-L',"$basedirname.orig/$fn",
                          '-L',"$basedirname/$fn",
                          '--',"$ofnread","$dir/$fn"); &syserr("exec diff");

Bye,

Zoltan