On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:29:22PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 05 Jan 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2 > [...] > > Perhaps to limit the possibilities of abuse, wildcards should only be > > supported in symbol names if there's an accompanying symbol version (with no > > wildcard expansion)?
> What do you mean exactly ? > I don't plan to allow wildcards in symbol version. I'm not even sure if I > want other wildcards except a single "*" in symbol names. One can always > add the symbol manually in the file and still make use of wildcards for > the remaining symbols. I mean that wildcards should not be allowed to match symbols that don't have a symbol version. But if there is a symbol version, then for the cases where this is useful at all it seems reasonably safe to me. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
