Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Russ Allbery <rra@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 distinction isn't representable.

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

That said, you _can_ construct even more contrived examples which are 
unrepresentable, e.g. by replacing "_" with a tab.

> The general way to specify information for a file name that contains 
> whitespace is to use wildcards to match the whitespace,

That works only if you can stand ugliness of such Files fields.

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Jakub Wilk