I just spent half a day hacking the equivs-build script to support white space in file names. Only to find it is a limitation in dh_install as well. I was understanding of equivs-build limitation as it is only a basic entry level tool for packaging and thus not needing for every situation. But that this is a limitaion in the core packaing tools has dumbfounded me. And that it has been raised almost a decade ago and seemingly ignored is quite hard to believe.
I'm just getting into debian, starting to package some of my own stuff. This is more than a bit off-putting to be honest. Why would allowing for white space to be escaped encourage all other problematic chraracters to require escaping? 1) white space is common, unlike other problematic characters. 2) white space was chosen as the delimiter between the file and the destination directory. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
