Le Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 12:44:23AM -0400, Andres Mejia a écrit : > 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."
Hi all, I think that how to specifiy a list of files is in the end in the hands of the people writing parsers. It the files are separated by space, then spaces are an issue, and if they are separated by commas, then commas are an issues. I can not tell the difference, as in the ~50 packages I maintain whichever did not cause any problem at all. With the current definition, the specification is a one-liner, but for sure we can replace it either by another one-limer (suggestions ?) or the previous format, that was splitting the specification for the file name and the directory name. (‘find -name’ plus ‘find -path’) The current advantage of space-delimited listing is that is matches the command-line experience. For intance we do not write ‘ls src, debian’, but ‘ls src debian’. So, from a parser point of view, what would be preferable, escaping spaces or commas? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
