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,
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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
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 cant parse white space in file names.
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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
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
Package: equivs
Version: 2.0.9
Followup-For: Bug #662946
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Hi,
as reported in #660765, I like to build my equivs packages under /tmp. I've done
so by cd-ing into tmp and calling equivs with the full path to the control
file. However in that case,
Package: equivs
Version: 2.0.9
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
For example, if I have a control file with
Files: src/some_program /bin
equivs installs /bin/src/some_program instead of /bin/some_program.
Apologies if this is intentional behaviour, but it was unexpected, not
to mention quite
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