From c49cd3e4a110ba302d9cf64c028db53bdd773484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:41:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Don't trigger release on an empty changelog.

---
 freshmeat-submit | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/freshmeat-submit b/freshmeat-submit
index dbfad4d..34f36f4 100755
--- a/freshmeat-submit
+++ b/freshmeat-submit
@@ -262,7 +262,9 @@ class FreshmeatMetadataFactory:
                         value = map(lambda x: x.strip(), value.split())
                     data.update({self.header_to_field(key) : value})
             if not 'changelog' in data:
-                data['changelog'] = message.get_payload().strip() + "\n"
+                payload = message.get_payload().strip()
+                if payload:
+                    data['changelog'] = payload + "\n"
             if prior_version and data.get("version") != prior_version:
                 raise FreshmeatSessionException("Version conflict on stdin.")
         # Merge in options from the command line;
-- 
2.43.0