Hi,
Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> (2023-05-04):
> Assuming the '55' stands for max 55 chars, that could be an issue?
That's not how format strings work. :)
That happily overflows:
$ printf "%-10s and the rest of the line\n" kibi
kibi and the rest of the line
$ printf "%-10s and the rest of the line\n" "Diederik de Haas"
Diederik de Haas and the rest of the line
> It turns out that spaces (and or backslashes to escape them) seems to
> be an issue for the Debian scripts used to make the Debian
> firmware-nonfree packages too. See https://bugs.debian.org/1035505 for
> details. Once that is fixed, I can submit my MR to add those missing
> symlinks.
Oh, d-i isn't the only one expecting non-crazy paths! :)
> Seems doable. I'm not going to spend time trying to make that though.
> I know virtually nothing about d-i/hw-detect internals, so it seems
> very unwise for me to even try it.
> Given the (specific) subject at hand, you won't be surprised that
> there's also a motivational issue ;-)
I was merely writing it out so that it could be sanity-checked, I wasn't
suggesting you would be the one to implement that. (Instead, I was
implicitly volunteering myself…)
Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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