Hi, On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > That wording would be an improvement from the perspective > of conveying more information. However, also changing the suffix > (before, we changed the prefix) would be disruptive to those who > matched against / differ$/. Though note that all POSIX requires > is that the diagnostic list the two file names and the word "differ".
Good to hear that something is specified, I shall make sure that dpkg-source also matches on that then. > > However, as long as the "meaning" is the same (upstream could confirm this) > > even if the message is not changed again, I think it should be quite > > easy to adapt dpkg-dev to the new behaviour if it's kept that way. > > > > Let's see what upstream think about this. > > I don't have a strong preference. > Do any of you? Since dpkg-source used to match only on /^binary/i I don't care. But if I were you, I would simply keep the same original string to avoid any further trouble. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/
