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

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Thu Feb 5 16:43:36 UTC 2009


At Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:57:08 +0900,
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> At Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:03:38 +1100,
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:53 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Doesn't space-delimiting with some random recipe of backslashes work?
> > > I seem to remember it used to work.
> > 
> > Yeah looks like that works.  Taking
> > 	pdebuild --debbuildopts -a\ -b 
> 
> > instead of the documented ("space-delimited")
> > 	pdebuild --debbuildopts -a -b
> 
> But this isn't space-delimiting. Your shell is going to eat the space.
> 
> 
> pdebuild --debbuildopts "-a -b"
> 
> is the right way (depends on your shell, of course).
> 
>  
> > 
> > The --debbuildopts entry in the pdebuild man page needs to be changed if
> > this is to be considered the correct solution.
> 

So, what's a fool-proof way of putting this together? you want
something that doesn't confuse you.

Shell needs spaces to be escaped; so, an example of 'space-delimited'
might have helped here?










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