Ben Hutchings: > It looks like this was quietly fixed somewhere between 10.2.5 and > 10.6.2, maybe in 10.5.1 by: > > * dh_install: Optimize some patterns into bulked "cp" calls. This > optimization is only applicable in some cases (notably, it is always > disabled by --exclude). > > This actually broke src:linux as we accidentally relied on dh_install > breaking at spaces. We'll fix that, but you might want to make the > change dependent on compat level in case it breaks other packages. > Possibly the change in 10.6.3 does that. > > Ben. > > [...]
Hmm, that is interesting. Said optimization was disabled in 10.6.1 (by making it conditional on compat 11) and the rewritten for 10.6.3. That suggests it is a different thing happening. Probably caused by the rewrite of the glob expansion though. I am a bit surprised why this would occur as AFAICT the splitting on space happens during parsing, which I have left unchanged. Can you provide an example of what worked before that now breaks. If I can get a minimal test case up and running, I can probably bisect the code and figure out exactly where it breaks. Thanks, ~Niels
