Bug#863118: devscripts needs proper configuration file parsing

[James McCoy]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 11:37:15PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> OK, here is my try to do the following.  Ugly, yes.  But it seems to
> catch most errors in friendly way.
> 
>  * "egrep" test to catch space after "="
>  * "set -e" to detect command not found; 
>    * space before "="
>    * "false" in line
>  * "bash -n" test
>  * Report the file name if a bug is found as much.
> 
> If no objection, I will apply this patch to git.  

The concept looks like a step in the right direction.  However, uscan.pl
isn't the only script that does this type of config parsing.

Also, I would wait until after Stretch is released.

Cheers,
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James
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