I think it works without the proposed patch. I guess I accidentally used another package not produced by dpkg-repack, but a similar tool that had problem with spaces.
Sorry. -- Asger Hautop Drewsen On 7 Jan 2015 at 16:29:04, Guillem Jover (guil...@debian.org) wrote: Hi! On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 19:10:15 +0100, Asger Hautop Drewsen wrote: > I have attached a patch that fixes dpkg-repack to copy installed > files containing spaces. This is perl (not a shell script), and the quoting is not necessary, so the patch is a no-op. > Currently it doesn’t do anything to files with spaces. It works for me, so maybe there's something else going on in your system? Thanks, Guillem