On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, tony mancill wrote: > The upstream appears to be dead, and there are other (Debian) users of > libconfig-simple-perl who requested this change. I agree that either > behavior is arbitrary, but since it can't behave both ways, would you be > receptive to a patch for publican that treats the empty value as the > default?
Coming back to the topic, I think you can draft a patch that works instead. - defined($rv) or return; + defined($rv->[0]) or return ""; This changes is wrong. if $rv is not defined, we want an undef value. Otherwise you get "" for a value that doesn't exist in the config file... that's what breaks publican IMO. You might want a supplementary test however: return "" if scalar(@$rv) == 0; If the array is empty, we return an empty string. for ( my $i=0; $i < @$rv; $i++ ) { $rv->[$i] =~ s/\\n/\n/g; } - return @$rv==1 ? $rv->[0] : (wantarray ? @$rv : $rv); + return @$rv<=1 ? $rv->[0] : (wantarray ? @$rv : $rv); If you stop above on an empty array, then this change is not needed IMO. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org