Bug#147583: dpkg is unkind to closed-source apps that use spaces in filenames

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.20
Severity: wishlist

As discussed with Adam Heath on IRC, there is a bug in dpkg's handling of
conffiles if the filename contains spaces -- or other shell special chars,
I would assume.  When trying to diff for the changes between the two
versions, I get an ENOENT because the filenames have not been properly
escaped or quoted.

Similarly, dpkg-source complains if my Debian diff makes changes to upstream
files whose names contain spaces.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kandu 2.4.18-xfs+evms #5 SMP Fri May 10 16:58:00 CDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2   1:2.95.4-7      The GNU stdc++ library



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