[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#712627: sbuild: Please accept 0 as a source version number

[Geoffrey Thomas]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.64.0-1
Tags: patch

Dear maintainer,

I have a very local package whose source version is 0 because don't have 
proper version numbering yet while the software is under initial 
development (debian/rules adds a build timestamp to the binary package). 
It doesn't build with sbuild, because sbuild checks the result of 
Dpkg::Version->new for perl falseness, and "0" is false.

Attached is a super-trivial patch to check for undef instead, since that's 
what Dpkg::Version is documented as returning on error. I've tested that 
my package now builds, but setting the version in debian/changelog to 
"badversion" still causes sbuild to fail.

-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
gthomas at mokafive.com
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