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Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>[...] some piece of sh black magic
>that gets the quotes right and separates arguments - some of which
>may contain spaces - at exactly the right places [1]).
FWIW, the black magic is "$*" (including the quotes).
>If writing it in Perl means we're more confident in its correctness in
>all cases, I say let's do it. After all, this is a script that will be
>used by *every* Java package.
Agreed. Perl is pretty tightly woven into Debian anyway; we might
as well make use of it. Maintainers who want their java packages
not to depend on perl can always compile to native and avoid the
whole runtime question.
- Alex
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