Andres Mejia wrote: > On Sunday 07 June 2009 02:16:41 you wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 00:44 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: >> > The current proposal for DEP 5 has this snippet for the 'Files' field. >> > >> > "List of space-separated globbing pathnames (see man 7 glob for more >> > details) indicating files that have the same licence and share >> > copyright holders." >> > >> > This doesn't take into account files or directories that may be named >> > with spaces. >> > >> > I suggest that the Files field use a comma-separated list of globbing >> > pathnames instead, else something ugly like 'path/with some spaces/'* >> > would have to be used. >> >> That just trades ' ' for ',' as the path not usable. >> >> I suggest just shell unescaping before globbing. >> >> foo\ bar baz >> -> >> 'foo bar' and 'baz'. >> >> -Rob > > I would still prefer to use a comma-seperated list instead of a > space-seperated list as using spaces in directories/files is more common > (and AFAIK, using commas is less common). The shell escaping could instead > be used for the commas if necessary.
The space-separated list has the advantage that you can list files on their own physical line. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
