In postfixes db's, store empty prefix as '^' to work around weird split

[deb/packages.git] / bin / parse-sources

diff --git a/bin/parse-sources b/bin/parse-sources
index 91e8ad54d202d7d422e8dc8a10a02c451b256548..63eda09c28878304aa56ec937a66b4bf99007c26 100755 (executable)
--- a/bin/parse-sources
+++ b/bin/parse-sources
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ for my $pkg (keys %source_names) {
        for (my $i=0;$i<length($pkg)-1;$i++) {
                my $before = substr($pkg, 0, $i);
                my $after = substr($pkg, $i);
+               $before = "^" if $before eq ""; # otherwise split doesn't work properly
                $source_postfixes{$after} .= "$before\0";
        }
 }