Empty lines are quite useful as (visual) delimiters between sections in
symbols files, for example when libfoo0 contains libfoo-bar.so.0 and
libfoo-baz.so.0. Consider them like comments: ignore them. This gets us
rid of such warnings (which by the way are missing line numbers):
| dpkg-gensymbols: warning: Failed to parse a line in debian/libfoo0.symbols:
| dpkg-gensymbols: warning: Failed to parse a line in debian/libfoo0.symbols:
---
scripts/Dpkg/Shlibs/SymbolFile.pm | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Not sure whether you'll like that. Docs might need an update, ditto for
tests, which I didn't run (sorry).

diff --git a/scripts/Dpkg/Shlibs/SymbolFile.pm b/scripts/Dpkg/Shlibs/SymbolFile.pm
index fa079b2..108fc07 100644
--- a/scripts/Dpkg/Shlibs/SymbolFile.pm
+++ b/scripts/Dpkg/Shlibs/SymbolFile.pm
@@ -236,8 +236,8 @@ sub parse {
}
$dir =~ s{[^/]+$}{}; # Strip filename
$self->load("$dir$filename", $seen, $obj_ref, $new_base_symbol);
- } elsif (/^#/) {
- # Skip possible comments
+ } elsif (/^#|^$/) {
+ # Skip possible comments and empty lines
} elsif (/^|s*(.*)$/) {
# Alternative dependency template
push @{$self->{objects}{$$obj_ref}{deps}}, "$1";
--
1.7.5.4


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Hi,

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Empty lines are quite useful as (visual) delimiters between sections in
> symbols files, for example when libfoo0 contains libfoo-bar.so.0 and
> libfoo-baz.so.0. Consider them like comments: ignore them. This gets us

Thanks for the patch, merged in my tree, will push soon.

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