Bug#795470: tagpending: Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/tagpending line 158

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.8
Severity: minor

Hello and thanks for maintaining devscripts!

I noticed that tagpending, when run in a source tree where the last
changelog entry includes no Closes directives, spits out the
following error message:

  $ tagpending 
  Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/tagpending line 158.
  tagpending info: Nothing to do, exiting.

Everything seems to work as intended, but the error message
("Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/tagpending line 158.")
is probably generated by an unhandled Perl exception (or am I completely
off-track?).
This is just a cosmetic issue, but I think it would be nice to handle
this properly and prevent the runtime error from being written out.

Thanks for your time!



-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.18.1
ii  libc6        2.19-19
ii  perl         5.20.2-6
ii  python3      3.4.3-4
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                          3.1.16-1
ii  curl                        7.43.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.24-1
ii  debian-keyring              2015.06.19
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
ii  equivs                      2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.2-1
ii  file                        1:5.22+15-2
ii  gnupg                       1.4.19-3
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.14
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.03-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.90-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.11-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.64-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.13-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.35
ii  man-db                      2.7.0.2-5
ii  patch                       2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                  0.3.4-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.27
pn  python3-magic               <none>
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.10-3
ii  unzip                       6.0-17
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1
ii  wget                        1.16.3-3
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20150408cvs-1
ii  build-essential              11.7
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  debbindiff                   <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  gpgv                         1.4.19-3
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.12-1
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
pn  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
ii  mutt                         1.5.23-3
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.7p1-6
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-23

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