Bug#863118: devscripts needs proper configuration file parsing
Adam D. Barratt
adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Mon May 22 08:36:37 UTC 2017
On 2017-05-22 9:14, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> devscripts.conf(5) says:
>
> The two configuration files are /etc/devscripts.conf for system-wide
> defaults and ~/.devscripts for per-user settings. They are written
> with bash(1) syntax, but should only have comments and simple
> variable
> assignments in them; they are both sourced (if present) by many of
> the
> devscripts scripts.
>
>
> This is a hack, not a proper handling of the configuration.
fwiw, the maintainers have been in violent agreement with this for
years, but it needs someone with tuits to replace the current situation
with a solution that's usable from all the languages included in
devscripts and maintains the existing semantics (it's not just simple
key=value pairs, users are actively relying on being able to use shell
within the file in some cases, and that at least needs considering).
Regards,
Adam
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