dh_python

2004-07-21 Thread Igor Stroh
Hi there, my AM pointed me at a possible error source in dh_python: the code in prerm skeleton[1] tries to delete all *.py[c|o] files of the appropriate package using xargs. The command used here might fail if the path of this file contains whitespaces. I mean I can hardly imagine a situation where

Re: dh_python

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Igor Stroh wrote: > Can anyone think of an example where whitespaces in > package's paths would be valid? You mean as in the following? /tmp$ mkdir a\ b /tmp$ echo > a\ b/x.py /tmp$ python Python 2.3.4 (#2, Jul 5 2004, 09:15:05) [GCC 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "c