Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:05:25PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@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 these are part of a test suite on filenames, slap upstream and
> > tell them to use sane filenames?
>
> We're basically retracing the previous discussion, and rediscovering why
> we left the spec alone.
>
> Formal correctness says that any possible file name should be
> representable, at which point filenames with newlines or embedded quote
> characters are a theoretical possibility and we would want some sort of
> robust solution for all those cases.
Right.
> If we *aren't* going to try to represent absolutely any possible legal
> filename exactly, then we're debating over how much of a technical
> correctness hole we want to leave, not over whether we're going to have one.
> At that point, I think it's reasonable to ask if we care about going to the
> work of expanding the spec to handle filenames with spaces in them without
> wildcards, as even that is not a horribly common case. (I realize it's more
> common for upstreams who develop on Windows or Mac OS.)
Indeed, so the question is "how far will we go in this".
I think having filenames with spaces in them is common enough that it
warrants extending the spec for. I do not think that having filenames
with weird characters in that have special meaning to a shell are common
enough to warrant extending the spec for.
On a personal note, one of my upstreams (beid) has a fairly complex
licensing situation and has files in the tarball with spaces in the
names... I suppose it would be to my benefit that this were allowed, but
I guess it's also fair to say I may be biased.
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