Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org, 2012-02-11, 12:06: For the encoding, this is not a problem limited to the machine-readable format. If the Debian copyright file is in an encoding A, and one file has a name or is in a directory that has a name in an encoding B that can not be represented in

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:50:10AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:05:25PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Note that another case that I don't think has been discussed, but which is probably more common than embedded quote marks, is a filename that's invalid UTF-8

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: It looks like there is not a single such filename in all sources, anywhere in unstable (for x in *.tar.*z*;do tar tf $x;done). Even lletters-media ships its data with English names and links them at build. Oh, cool, thank you for checking! I think

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:05:25PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Note that another case that I don't think has been discussed, but which is probably more common than embedded quote marks, is a filename that's invalid UTF-8 (straight ISO 8859-1, for example). Do these even happen anymore? Looking

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:05:25PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Not a solution on its own. Actually, I think it's a perfectly workable solution. What about a file named foo

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2012-02-09, 23:05: Note that another case that I don't think has been discussed, but which is probably more common than embedded quote marks, is a filename that's invalid UTF-8 (straight ISO 8859-1, for example). That's also not representable in our typical

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2012-02-09, 23:05: Note that another case that I don't think has been discussed, but which is probably more common than embedded quote marks, is a filename that's invalid UTF-8 (straight ISO 8859-1, for example). That's also

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: Of course, it's source packages that matter, can't check them that easily. Could someone who has all the sources downloaded and unpacked check?  My box that has them decided to not heed wake-on-lan. Just look at the Contents-source files:

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Wise p...@debian.org, 2012-02-11, 08:35: Of course, it's source packages that matter, can't check them that easily. Could someone who has all the sources downloaded and unpacked check?  My box that has them decided to not heed wake-on-lan. Just look at the Contents-source files:

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:05:55AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2012-02-09, 23:05: Note that another case that I don't think has been discussed, but which is probably more common than embedded quote marks, is a filename

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org writes: Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:20 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org writes: DEP-5 is nice, but how can I specify a license for a file with white spaces? For example you want to specify that the file foo/file one.bar is

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:01:00 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Idea 2: Allow quotation marks. Not a solution on its own. What about a file named foo bar' baz? For a worst case what about files with newlines? You can double the delimiter to embed it into a string,

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 07:38:29PM +0300, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hello, On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:01:00 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Idea 2: Allow quotation marks. Not a solution on its own. What about a file named foo bar' baz? For a worst case what about

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Idea 2: Allow quotation marks. Not a solution on its own. Actually, I think it's a perfectly workable solution. What about a file named foo bar' baz? For a worst case what about files with newlines? Unless these are

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Not a solution on its own. Actually, I think it's a perfectly workable solution. What about a file named foo bar' baz? For a worst case what about files with newlines? Unless

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:50:09AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : 1) DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00155.html) My summary is that the participants were quite divided on whether separating the list of files by spaces or by

DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi, DEP-5 is nice, but how can I specify a license for a file with white spaces? For example you want to specify that the file foo/file one.bar is licensed under ISC, but foo/file_one.bar is licensed under GPL. How can you do that? I would like to write following: File: foo/file one.bar

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org writes: DEP-5 is nice, but how can I specify a license for a file with white spaces? For example you want to specify that the file foo/file one.bar is licensed under ISC, but foo/file_one.bar is licensed under GPL. How can you do that? No, that distinction

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2012-02-01, 14:20: DEP-5 is nice, but how can I specify a license for a file with white spaces? For example you want to specify that the file foo/file one.bar is licensed under ISC, but foo/file_one.bar is licensed under GPL. How can you do that? No, that

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: This one is representable. You can take advantage of the fact the the last paragraph that matches a particular file applies to it: | Files: foo/file?one.bar | License: ISC | | Files: foo/file_one.bar | License: GPL Oh, hey, yes, good point. -- Russ

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:20 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org writes: DEP-5 is nice, but how can I specify a license for a file with white spaces? For example you want to specify that the file foo/file one.bar is licensed under ISC, but foo/file_one.bar

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 23:31 +0100 schrieb Jakub Wilk: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2012-02-01, 14:20: DEP-5 is nice, but how can I specify a license for a file with white spaces? For example you want to specify that the file foo/file one.bar is licensed under ISC, but

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org writes: Is it to complex to have a syntax that is similar to what the shell does? Two solutions pop into my mind. Please let me know, why these are not use. You can point me to previous discussions. Idea 1: Use a escape sequence for specifying a whitespace

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:49 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org writes: Is it to complex to have a syntax that is similar to what the shell does? Two solutions pop into my mind. Please let me know, why these are not use. You can point me to previous

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org writes: Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:49 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: Yeah, both of those were among the other syntax proposals that were suggested, and I think one of them was in the document at one point. Using backslash is probably the easiest, although it

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:56 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org writes: Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:49 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: Yeah, both of those were among the other syntax proposals that were suggested, and I think one of them was in the document

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:44:36PM +0100, Benjamin Drung a écrit : Is it to complex to have a syntax that is similar to what the shell does? Two solutions pop into my mind. Please let me know, why these are not use. You can point me to previous discussions. Hi Benjamin, You can refer to the