Bug#662946: bug 662946 equivs: does not strip subdirectories from files to be installed
Hello, any chance that the patch that allows files in subdirectories be applied soon without the additional feature of allowing spaces in file names? Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#662946: bug 662946 equivs: does not strip subdirectories from files to be installed
Well, I can agree with you to a certain extent. I wouldn't use whitespace in any of my projects files. However I'm packaging Digikam, one of the shining stars of the open source world IMHO. And it includes a few files with white space in the names, files designed for humans, not computers or programmers like us. Bottom line is I can't package it unless I do something far worse than white space in file names. PS, thanks for the reply... and for the great software that got me into debian packaging. I use equivs-build to package for PCLinuxOS too. I found it easier to make a simple deb and alien it rpm than to figure out how make a simple rpm. Thomas Koch wrote: >Euan Thoms: >> I started hacking a solution to the white spaces in files names. I got it >> working for the equivs-build script but then hit a wall when I discovered >> that dh_install itself does not support white-space in file names / paths. >> The issue was raised in 2003 and basically the maintainer is not >> interested in resolving the situation. I find it quite disturbing and >> unacceptable that we can't have white-space in file names for core >> packaging tools. Is there something I'm missing here? How can this stay >> like this for nearly a decade? >I can't help but smile and consider it a wonderful feature that the core >packaging tools shield my system against files with whitespace... :-) > >Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
Bug#662946: bug 662946 equivs: does not strip subdirectories from files to be installed
Euan Thoms: > I started hacking a solution to the white spaces in files names. I got it > working for the equivs-build script but then hit a wall when I discovered > that dh_install itself does not support white-space in file names / paths. > The issue was raised in 2003 and basically the maintainer is not > interested in resolving the situation. I find it quite disturbing and > unacceptable that we can't have white-space in file names for core > packaging tools. Is there something I'm missing here? How can this stay > like this for nearly a decade? I can't help but smile and consider it a wonderful feature that the core packaging tools shield my system against files with whitespace... :-) Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#662946: bug 662946 equivs: does not strip subdirectories from files to be installed
Sorry, my last message was sent in HTML, so I'll repeate below: > I agree with RjY, this is undesired behaviour to not allow full path of source files int the "Files:" section. What if there are two files with same name in different directories, copying them to the same dir as control file is not possible. Also, it can't parse white space in file names. < I've tested RjY's patch and it works well. It's a simple ans small change that makes a real big difference to anyone doing basic packaging with equivs. Please consider the fix before it's too late to get into wheezy. I started hacking a solution to the white spaces in files names. I got it working for the equivs-build script but then hit a wall when I discovered that dh_install itself does not support white-space in file names / paths. The issue was raised in 2003 and basically the maintainer is not interested in resolving the situation. I find it quite disturbing and unacceptable that we can't have white-space in file names for core packaging tools. Is there something I'm missing here? How can this stay like this for nearly a decade? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
