From 4c586062b275dcddc18f521ac092cf0f600a36de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcin Mielniczuk <marmistrz.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:42:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the Debian packaging script on systems with no codename
When calling `make deb-pkg` on a system with no codename (for example
Arch Linux), lsb_release sometimes outputs `n/a` as the codename.
This breaks dpkg-parsechangelog, which can't process the changelog
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Mielniczuk <marmistrz.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
---
scripts/package/builddeb | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index 116ef00c0b826..510add6d050c7 100755
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -240,7 +240,8 @@ maintainer="$name <$email>"
# Try to determine distribution
if [ -n "$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST" ]; then
distribution=$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST
-elif distribution=$(lsb_release -cs 2>/dev/null) && [ -n "$distribution" ]; then
+# In some cases lsb_release returns the codename as n/a, which breaks dpkg-parsechangelog
+elif distribution=$(lsb_release -cs 2>/dev/null) && [ -n "$distribution" ] && [ "$distribution" != "n/a" ]; then
: # nothing to do in this case
else
distribution="unstable"