user [email protected] usertag dcmd thanks On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > dcmd fails in a very obscure way if somebody accidentally capitalises > the Priority field in debian/control. Attached is a > manually-constructed example, which produces the following output: > > $ dcmd man-db_2.5.6-5_i386.changes > [: 252: doc: unexpected operator > [snip] > I imagine this is due to a strict regex.
Yeah, this is due to the regex using [a-z] instead of [[:alpha:]] or [a-zA-Z]. > I don't particularly mind > whether it fails or not - the input is technically invalid, after all - > but it would be nice if it failed in a clearer way. I don't see anything in policy stating that the section or priority must use only lower-case, so I'm of the mind it should be fixed to accept the input. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
