better test for long description fix

git-svn-id: svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/cran2deb@247 edb9625f-4e0d-4859-8d74-9fd3b1da38cb

diff --git a/trunk/R/debcontrol.R b/trunk/R/debcontrol.R
index 1cadc7ac03645d670bedaf51afaf648a93bf04df..915ab25b1f6fe717277dec1fde9957a51d869383 100644 (file)
--- a/trunk/R/debcontrol.R
+++ b/trunk/R/debcontrol.R
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ generate_control <- function(pkg) {
         long_descr <- pkg$description[1,'Description']
     }
 
-    if (length(long_descr) < 1) {
+    if (length(long_descr) < 1 || long_descr == "") {
         # bypass lintian extended-description-is-empty for which we care not.
         long_descr <- paste('The author/maintainer of this package'
                            ,'did not care to enter a longer description.')