Package: dpkg
Version: 1.20.5
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
in the debrebuild script from devscripts we use the following code
snippet:
if ($srcpkgname =~ / /) {
# In some cases such as binNMUs, the source field contains a version in
# the form:
# mscgen (0.20)
($srcpkgname, $srcpkgver) = split / /, $srcpkgname, 2;
# Add a simple control check to avoid the worst surprises and stop obvious
# cases of garbage-in-garbage-out.
die("Unexpected source package name: ${srcpkgname}\n")
if $srcpkgname =~ m{[ \t_/\(\)<>!\n%&\$\#\@]};
# remove the surrounding parenthesis from the version
$srcpkgver =~ s/^\((.*)\)$/$1/;
}
as prompted by Mattia Rizzolo in [1] I'm proposing to add a function
that is able to parse a Source field with a source package name and a
possible version in brackets to libdpkg-perl.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/212#note_214079
