[debhelper-devel] Bug#198507: dh_install: fails if filenames have an embedded space
Niels Thykier
niels at thykier.net
Wed Oct 5 20:24:00 UTC 2016
Gergely Nagy:
> Hi!
>
>>>>>> "Niels" == Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> writes:
>
> Niels> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:59:52 -0400 Joe Nahmias <joe at nahmias.net> wrote:
>
> Now, this is quite an ancient issue! :D
>
Partly why I want it -done'd! ;)
> [...]
>
> You only need to teach debhelper to handle the \-escaped spaces.
>
I am not really sure I want to use \-escaped spaces. Besides being a
pain in themselves, it would also suggest that the glob characters can
be escaped. Which leads us to Joey Hess's comment in #198507#17.
If we go down that route of backslash escaped characters, I inclined to
go all in with Text::ParseWords's shellwords/parse_line from the beginning.
Would that still be doable in the dh-exec end?
Thanks,
~Niels
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