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Re: Help with watch file



On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 05:42:43PM -0500, Bill Blough wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:40:26PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > suffers rather from leaning toothpick syndrome.  Does the
> > `downloadurlmangle' support Perl's ability to handle nonstandard
> > delimiters ?  Using something other than / means that / does not need
> > to be \-escaped.  { } are often a good choice.
> 
> A quick look through the uscan source suggests that it does not.
> However, Paul's solution is way cleaner than mine, so it's probably
> moot, at least in this case.

It should be supported.  The safe_replace[0] function makes no
assumptions about what the separator is.

[0]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/tree/scripts/uscan.pl?id=bce34b8d7fa410e64c411bd780f8e21603167ae7#n4441

Cheers,
-- 
James
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