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-rw-r--r--Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm b/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm
index 1d438f9d203..5296ed49d82 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm
@@ -749,7 +749,11 @@ sub update_from_catalogue {
if (defined($entry->entry->{'date'})) {
my $foo = $entry->entry->{'date'};
$foo =~ s/^.Date: //;
- $foo =~ s/ \(.*\) \$ *$//;
+ # trying to extract the interesting part of a subversion date
+ # keyword expansion here, e.g.,
+ # $Date$
+ # ->2007-08-15 19:43:35 +0100
+ $foo =~ s/ \(.*\)( \$ *)$//; # maybe nothing after parens
$self->cataloguedata->{'date'} = $foo;
}
if (defined($entry->license)) {