On to, 2010-08-26 at 08:43 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The Files field needs to specify patterns on filenames. We need to > specify how to do that.
Here is my understanding of the current situation: * There is no particular consensus on filename patterns. * Charles suggests a very simple globbing (* and ? and nothing else). * .gitignore is still on the table, but has neither strong support, nor strong opposition. * No consensus on exclusions in patterns versus multiple paragraphs. * No consensus on patterns on basename only, versus the whole path. * Nobody seems to object dropping commas for separating patterns. * Nobody likes my idea of regexps on pathnames. To make this go forward, I suggest that we adopt Charles's suggestion of very simple globbing, since that's going to be compatible with more powerful syntaxes if we want to adopt those later. Further, I suggest we not treat the slash character specially when matching, so that */Makefile.in will match Makefile.in at any depth. All patterns are anchored to the root of the source tree; thus a plain Makefile.in will match only at the root of the source tree. I suggest we not add exclusions at this time. In a year or two, we can re-visit this part of the spec and see if it needs to be improved. Is this proposal acceptable? If so, I'll write up a formal suggestion for the new wording. (I'm sitting in a cafe waiting for a movie to start, so I don't have time for that now.) (Burglars please take note: we've emptied our apartment. We're moving to another country. There's no point in trying to steal anything, unless you like carpet lint.) (Oh, people following the DEP-5 saga should perhaps note that for the next week I'll be in transit and might not have frequent Internet access. Indeed, I might be entirely too busy avoiding dropbears, boxing with kangaroos, and learning life lessons from koalas to react very quickly to DEP-5 e-mails, but I'll get to them the following week.) (Lisp programmers please take note: I am not saying using Lisp will make you use too many parentheses, but that's certainly what happened to me.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282981875.2242.136.ca...@havelock