From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 04:02:43 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: gnu-mklog: handle ^L whitespace chars
X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?p=home.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=224d360bf25ee034b16fe7c12c9785eab9f5c25c

gnu-mklog: handle ^L whitespace chars
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diff --git a/.bin/gnu-mklog b/.bin/gnu-mklog
index 52fd7ce..d24e0bf 100755
--- a/.bin/gnu-mklog
+++ b/.bin/gnu-mklog
@@ -93,8 +93,11 @@ def main(argv):
                 new_log = new_log.replace(pfile.path, relpath)
 
         # Read the old ChangeLog file and strip spurious whitespace.
+        # Specify the whitespace to strip explciitly as we want to leave the
+        # \f (^L) characters alone.
         with open(log, encoding='utf-8') as fp:
-            old_log = '\n'.join(x.rstrip() for x in fp.read().strip().splitlines())
+            old_log = '\n'.join(x.rstrip(' \t\r')
+                                for x in fp.read().strip().split('\n'))
 
         # Now update the ChangeLog file with the new entry at top.
         with open(log, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fp: