Bug#865525: [mount] Make escaping of space in fstab correspond common escaping rules

[Andreas Henriksson]

Control: tags -1 upstream wontfix

Hello vladislav naumov,

Your issue is about changing the program behaviour and is in no way
debian specific. Please discuss these changes with upstream.
It is very unlikely that deviations from upstreams behaviour will be
applied downstream in Debian even if you wrote a patch for it.
I'm thus tagging your issue as "wontfix" for now. Please discuss
and integrate these kind of changes upstream and they will go into
debian once we update (or if you think it's urgent, please tell us
which commit(s) you think should be urgently backported right away
once they have been merged in the upstream git repo).

Without having spent much thought on it I think it's quite unlikely
that changing the way fstab is parsed now is unlikely to happen given
the existing format has decades of usage and people relying on it.
Please do raise your suggestion on the upstream mailing list though
to see what people there thinks about your idea.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

Bug#865525: [mount] Make escaping of space in fstab correspond common escaping rules

[vladislav naumov]

Package: mount 
Version: 2.29.2-1 
Severity: wishlist 

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Hello dear friends.
I suggest to make escaping of space symbols in /etc/fstab be corresponding 
common rules, just like in Bash:
-or to take all line with path, where space symbols are present, into quotes 
("/home/user/some folder"),
-or to allow specifying spaces after backslash symbol (home/user/some\ folder).
Possibility to escape spaces with current way (\040) is good, but it can 
confuse people and make them spending more time on learning documentation 
and\or searching in internet.
Also, if different programs will use different rules for specifying common 
things, this would lead to misunderstandings and to need spend much time 
finding and learning information.
I like the "standardized" approach of Linux: different files of programs are 
laying in different predetermined places, one program answers for installing 
packages, one - to work with dependencies, all help pages can be received by 
launching different programs with "--help" key, so nobody will confuse finding 
what he needs. All answers common rules, which were derived by years of 
practice.
So I suggest to correct behavior of working with /etc/fstab file to more easy 
and standard way.
Best regards, Vladislav.

--- System information. --- 
Architecture: 
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 

Debian Release: 9.0 
500 unstable ftp.ua.debian.org 
150 stable dl.google.com 
150 betsy linux-mint.froonix.org 
150 betsy extra.linuxmint.com 
149 zesty ppa.launchpad.net 
149 yakkety ppa.launchpad.net 
149 xenial ppa.launchpad.net 
149 trusty ppa.launchpad.net 
149 stable kxstudio.linuxaudio.org 
149 lucid ppa.launchpad.net 

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