Bug#501390: Does not accept multiple --debbuildopts options

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

At Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:23:01 +1100,
Drew Parsons wrote:
> 
> 
> > If I were to rewrite it now, I'd like to implement it using shell
> > arrays to maintain a DEBBUILDOPTS like interface.  How about that?
> > 
> 
> Shell arrays sound find, please try it!
> 
> It's a problem because of a separate bug in dpkg-buildpackage,
> that it's rejecting entries in the Uploaders: field in debian/control. 
> I'm trying to work around that problem in pdebuild by giving a -k
> option to --debbuildopts, but then I'm running against the problem in
> this bug report!

Doesn't space-delimiting with some random recipe of backslashes work?
I seem to remember it used to work.