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DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces



The current proposal for DEP 5 has this snippet for the 'Files' field.

"List of space-separated globbing pathnames (see man 7 glob for more details) 
indicating files that have the same licence and share copyright holders."

This doesn't take into account files or directories that may be named with 
spaces.

I suggest that the Files field use a comma-separated list of globbing pathnames 
instead, else something ugly like 'path/with some spaces/'* would have to be 
used.

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Regards,
Andres
Index: dep5.mdwn
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--- dep5.mdwn	(revision 54)
+++ dep5.mdwn	(working copy)
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
 
  * **`Files`**
    * Required. However, the first **`Files`** field can be omitted and its value will be assumed to be '*'.
-   * List of space-separated globbing pathnames (see `man 7 glob` for more details) indicating files that have the same licence and share copyright holders.
+   * List of comma-separated globbing pathnames (see `man 7 glob` for more details) indicating files that have the same licence and share copyright holders.
    * If multiple `Files` declaratioun match the same file, then only the last match counts.
 
  * **`Copyright`**

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