Package: emacs22-non-dfsg
Version: 22.1+1-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Dear Emacs maintainers,

I notice that the debian/rules file for the emacs22-non-dfsg package uses
the (formerly depracated and now removed) "tail +N" syntax.  This causes
package rebuilding to fail, hence the important severity.

Please find a patch attached that fixes this problem.  Thanks also
for packaging Emacs!

Yours truly,

John Zaitseff

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diff -ruN emacs-22.1-non-dfsg.orig/debian/rules emacs-22.1-non-dfsg/debian/rules
--- emacs-22.1-non-dfsg.orig/debian/rules	2008-02-26 15:49:41.000000000 +1100
+++ emacs-22.1-non-dfsg/debian/rules	2008-02-26 16:59:51.000000000 +1100
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
 	cp debian/emacs-common-non-dfsg.README.00 debian/emacs-common-non-dfsg.README.tmp
 	for p in $$(quilt series); do quilt header $$p; done \
 	  >> debian/emacs-common-non-dfsg.README.tmp
-	tail +2 \
+	tail -n +2 \
 	  < debian/emacs-common-non-dfsg.README.01 >> debian/emacs-common-non-dfsg.README.tmp
 	mv debian/emacs-common-non-dfsg.README.tmp $@
 

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