parse_depends() now handles empty case internally

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/toolsrc/src/BinaryParagraph.cpp b/toolsrc/src/BinaryParagraph.cpp
index 48d04f686..61c74fcf5 100644
--- a/toolsrc/src/BinaryParagraph.cpp
+++ b/toolsrc/src/BinaryParagraph.cpp
@@ -23,11 +23,7 @@ namespace vcpkg
         }
 
         std::string deps = optional_field(fields, "Depends");
-        if (!deps.empty())
-        {
-            this->depends.clear();
-            this->depends = parse_depends(deps);
-        }
+        this->depends = parse_depends(deps);
     }
 
     BinaryParagraph::BinaryParagraph(const SourceParagraph& spgh, const triplet& target_triplet)
diff --git a/toolsrc/src/SourceParagraph.cpp b/toolsrc/src/SourceParagraph.cpp
index 374121ae9..75c8ebfef 100644
--- a/toolsrc/src/SourceParagraph.cpp
+++ b/toolsrc/src/SourceParagraph.cpp
@@ -12,9 +12,5 @@ vcpkg::SourceParagraph::SourceParagraph(const std::unordered_map<std::string, st
     maintainer(optional_field(fields, "Maintainer"))
 {
     std::string deps = optional_field(fields, "Build-Depends");
-    if (!deps.empty())
-    {
-        this->depends.clear();
-        this->depends = parse_depends(deps);
-    };
+    this->depends = parse_depends(deps);
 }
diff --git a/toolsrc/src/vcpkglib_helpers.cpp b/toolsrc/src/vcpkglib_helpers.cpp
index 04fdf214e..02182b995 100644
--- a/toolsrc/src/vcpkglib_helpers.cpp
+++ b/toolsrc/src/vcpkglib_helpers.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ namespace vcpkg {namespace details
 
     std::vector<std::string> parse_depends(const std::string& depends_string)
     {
+        if (depends_string.empty())
+        {
+            return {};
+        }
+
         std::vector<std::string> out;
 
         size_t cur = 0;