From 6c796faa1c65d40456d1137ea84fe92dbf258fc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joey <joey>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:27:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] r478:    * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd
 semantics      which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542

---
 debian/changelog | 7 +++++++
 dh_gencontrol    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4ca7abe..8382202 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
+    which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
+
 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
diff --git a/dh_gencontrol b/dh_gencontrol
index d305b96..99923cf 100755
--- a/dh_gencontrol
+++ b/dh_gencontrol
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 	# Merge in user-specified substvars file with debhelper generated
 	# one.
 	my $substvars=pkgfile($package,"substvars");
-	if (-e $substvars) {
+	if ($substvars) {
 		complex_doit("cat $substvars >> debian/${ext}substvars.debhelper");
 	}
 
-- 
2.39.2