Debian Bug report logs - #20024
dpkg-dev: dpkg-source -x fails miserably if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Gregory S. Stark" <gsstark@mit.edu>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source -x fails miserably if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set

Date: 21 Mar 98 14:00:28 EST

Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0.21

If the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set dpkg-source -x fails.
This is because the diff files dpkg builds don't contain enough information
for a POSIX patch to know where to create new files.

Ideally we would generate diff's that a POSIX patch would be able to apply.
The quick fix for dpkg-source is to invoke patch with the environment cleared.
That would probably be the right thing in any case since patch checks some
other environment variables and dpkg-source really wants consistent
deterministic behaviour, not what the current user happens to prefer.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (unstable)
Kernel Version: Linux portA35.Generation.NET 2.0.33 #2 Mon Jan 12 11:08:08 EST 1998 i586 unknown

Message #14 received at 20024@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>

To: 20024@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug seems to be fixed

Date: 29 Jan 2000 14:48:39 -0500

This bug appears to be fixed at some point before 1.6.6:

delete $ENV{'POSIXLY_CORRECT'};

It would be nice to generate posixly correct patches, but I'm not sure that's
possible. As long as dpkg-dev depends on GNU diff and patch though it's
probably enough to just do this. 

-- 
greg

Message #19 received at 20024-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>

To: Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, 20024-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#20024: Bug seems to be fixed

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 01:27:34 +0100

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Previously Gregory Stark wrote:
> This bug appears to be fixed at some point before 1.6.6:

I'll close it then :)

Wichert.

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