On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 22:54:25 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Could we open a bug report about this ? I have an idea for improving > this kind of problem and it will help me.
Not really, I'd most probably tag it wontfix and close it after a bit. There's so many things in the Debian packaging toolchain that assume no system files contain newlines, that correctly supporting them would break tons of stuff. They could get octal escaped for example (as \NNN), but other stuff might break if it does not unescape these. I think I'll be changing dpkg to reject paths with newlines in them instead. Why would you need system paths to contain newlines anyway? > Instead of begining the .list with /. we could begin with /./. and > thus encode a .list file version. The infodb already contains a format version file. But I don't really see the point in supporting this. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
