Control: retitle -1 DEP-5 does not support filenames with blanks Control: reassign -1 debian-policy Hi all, On Sa 02 Jan 2016 10:16:26 CET, Niels Thykier wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:05:31 +0000 Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:Package: lintian Version: 2.5.39 When checking the build of onboard 1.1.2-2, I get this from lintian: """ [...] """ Reason: upstream tarball contains files with spaces. Greets, MikeHi Mike, Sadly, it is working as intended. The copyright format declares that the field is "space"-separated[1] and does not even declare a way to escape spaces. The best you can get is "file/with?spaces" (i.e. use "?" as a single character wildcard) if you want a legal DEP-5 copyright. If you think the spec is inadequate (I would be inclined to agree), please bring it up as a bug against debian-policy. Thanks, ~Niels [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#files-field
As suggested by Niels, I reassign this issue to debian-policy.At the moment, we are not able to exactly specify file paths of files/folders containing blanks in debian/copyright when complying with the DEP-5 specs. (I agree that it is indeed uncommon as a developer to use blanks in filenames and that it should be avoided by upstream devs).
Suggestions to solve this: (a) allow escaping of blanks somehow (e.g., "\ ") (b) allow quotes for filenames or such@Niels: for onboard I filed an upstream bug to avoid using blanks in their upstream files. Also, thanks for your idea with the "?" wildcard.
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