r177: Initial Import

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d00c0592..8fdd8d52 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * README: minor typo fix.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>  Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
+
 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
diff --git a/dh_md5sums b/dh_md5sums
index 4ab9041a..76b87e82 100755
--- a/dh_md5sums
+++ b/dh_md5sums
@@ -29,7 +29,13 @@ foreach $PACKAGE (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 	}
 
 	$olddir=getcwd();
-	complex_doit("cd $TMP ; find * -type f $exclude ! -regex '^DEBIAN/.*' -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums ; cd $olddir");
-	doit("chmod",644,"$TMP/DEBIAN/md5sums");
-	doit("chown","root.root","$TMP/DEBIAN/md5sums");
+	complex_doit("cd $TMP ; find * -type f $exclude ! -regex '^DEBIAN/.*' -print0 | xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums ; cd $olddir");
+	# If the file's empty, no reason to waste inodes on it.
+	if (-z "$TMP/DEBIAN/md5sums") {
+		doit("rm","-f","$TMP/DEBIAN/md5sums");
+	}
+	else {
+		doit("chmod",644,"$TMP/DEBIAN/md5sums");
+		doit("chown","root.root","$TMP/DEBIAN/md5sums");
+	}
 }
diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README
index 30f2a2cf..774f9fd4 100644
--- a/doc/README
+++ b/doc/README
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ script. If you would like to embed it into a perl script, here is one way to
 do that (note the tricky use of backquotes) (also note that I made sure that
 $1, $2, etc are set with the set command):
 
-print << `EOF`
+print << `EOF`;
 set -- @ARGV
 #DEBHELPER#
 EOF