Package: module-assistant Version: 0.10.7 Severity: important Really odd things happen if the environment variable VERSION is defined or set before calling module-assistant.
Given an invocation as in
| module-assistant build <module>--non-inter --kernel-dir /home/linux \
| --userdir . --text-mode -f
(tested for <madwifi> and <rt2500> and a third off-Debian package)
a) "export VERSION=foobar" before build
builds the module but fails with the last lines:
| dh_gencontrol -- -vfoobar
| dh_md5sums
| dh_builddeb --destdir=/tmp
| dpkg-deb - error: (upstream) version (`foobar') doesn't contain any digits
b) "export VERSION=" before build
fails a bit earlier for an empty VERSION:
| dh_gencontrol -- -v
| dpkg-gencontrol: unknown option `-v'
|
| Usage: dpkg-gencontrol [<option> ...]
(...)
The reason for this is at about line 145 in
/usr/share/modass/include/generic.make which assumes any present value
of VERSION is valid which might not be the case if the value is taken
from the environment.
Solution: Please strip VERSION from the environment before doing any
further calls, for example by doing:
--- /usr/bin/module-assistant.OLD 2006-10-14 00:08:51.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/bin/module-assistant 2006-10-31 00:50:02.000000000 +0000
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
}
}
+delete $ENV{'VERSION'};
chomp($rows=`tput lines`);
chomp($columns=`tput cols`);
$rows=25 if !$rows;
Christoph
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages module-assistant depends on:
ii libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-5 internationalized substitute of Te
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages module-assistant recommends:
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 Using libc functions for internati
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