Hello Russ, On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:54:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I like solution (a), honestly. I think we could just add backslash as an > escape character that escapes anything other than a newline and have the > problem basically go away. It would require a new version of the spec, > though, since it's not backward compatible (although I doubt many files > contained literal backslashes).
Okay. > Line-based lists is much less backward-compatible, since we break > every debian/copyright file that uses space-separated lists, which is > much more common than having whitespace in filenames. My suggestion was that the Files: field could be /either/ a line-based list or a space-separated list -- is there something that would break? -- Sean Whitton
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