On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:07 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:08 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > According to the manual page, -k argument "must be in quotes if it is 
> > more than one (shell) word." I'm not sure whether this a comment on how 
> > user's shell splits arguments or how deb-reversion splits them, but in 
> > either case quoting doesn't help:
> [...]
> > $ deb-reversion -k "'echo hello world'" devscripts_2.11.4_i386.deb
> > /usr/bin/deb-reversion: eval: line 77: unexpected EOF while looking for 
> > matching `''
> 
> You want this format, and a version of deb-reversion that doesn't have
> broken handling of multi-word arguments.

As discussed on IRC, I've applied your suggested further changes so that
"deb-reversion -k 'echo hello world' $foo.deb" works; thanks. :-)

Regards,

Adam





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