[Pkg-dkms-maint] [PATCH 4/4] Adding some quoting to postinst/prerm shell variables

David Paleino dapal at debian.org
Thu Feb 18 17:07:43 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:14:12, Frédéric Brière wrote:
> I'm guessing none of this is necessary at all (version numbers cannot start
> with "~", can they?), but better safe than sorry.  I didn't go so far as to
> quote filenames, however.  Apply or reject at your leisure.

I'm in favour of rejecting it. Quoting is really necessary if we expect 
whitespace in the variables, and we want to fail in this case.

And, no, version numbers canno start with ~.

Before fully rejecting it, I'd wait for other team members opinions.

Thank you!,
David

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