Description: Work-around for broken baloons with empty messages
Forwarded: no
Origin: vendor, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165218#5 
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/165218
Author: Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>

--- cowsay-3.03.orig/cowsay
+++ cowsay-3.03/cowsay
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ sub maxlength {
 	$l = length $i;
 	$m = $l if ($l > $m);
     }
+##  maxlength patch from Jeronimo Pellegrini (Closes: #165218)
+    if ($m == -1) {
+	$m = 0;
+    }
     return $m;
 }