Make parse_metadata_use() tolerate empty flag descriptions.

diff --git a/pym/repoman/utilities.py b/pym/repoman/utilities.py
index 6dbdeddcd7d39e2abf03558e27c4063b8b3625d8..50576d9b922ae96a56289ed1ec0fb266326cf2db 100644 (file)
--- a/pym/repoman/utilities.py
+++ b/pym/repoman/utilities.py
@@ -133,9 +133,6 @@ def parse_metadata_use(xml_tree):
                pkg_flag = flag.get("name")
                if pkg_flag is None:
                        raise exception.ParseError("missing 'name' attribute for 'flag' tag")
-               if flag.text is None:
-                       raise exception.ParseError("missing USE description with " + \
-                               "the 'flag' tag (name=%s)" % pkg_flag)
 
                # emulate the Element.itertext() method from python-2.7
                inner_text = []
@@ -152,11 +149,7 @@ def parse_metadata_use(xml_tree):
                                stack.append(obj.tail)
                        stack.extend(reversed(obj))
 
-               pkg_flag_value = " ".join("".join(inner_text).split())
-               if not pkg_flag_value:
-                       raise exception.ParseError("missing USE description with " + \
-                               "the 'flag' tag (name=%s)" % pkg_flag)
-               uselist[pkg_flag] = pkg_flag_value
+               uselist[pkg_flag] = " ".join("".join(inner_text).split())
        return uselist
 
 class UnknownHerdsError(ValueError):