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Re: Unusual characters in filenames in Lintian's testset



Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> writes:

> For Ubuntu, we'd like to be able to import Lintian into bzr.
> Unfortunately, at the moment this fails because there are some unusual
> characters in testset/filenames/files/:
>
>   $ ls -l --quoting-style=c testset/filenames/files/
>   total 16
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 cjwatson cjwatson 89 2004-03-10 02:39 " .tif"
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 cjwatson cjwatson 40 2004-03-10 02:39 "\".tif"
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 cjwatson cjwatson 14 2004-03-10 02:39 "'\\ "
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 cjwatson cjwatson 47 2004-03-10 02:39 "Maelstrom Sound"
>
> bzr doesn't like the "\" character because it breaks checkouts on
> Windows. (I'm not sure I agree with this decision, but that's a separate
> conversation.)
>
> Would anyone mind if, switching to my Lintian maintenance team hat, I
> arranged for these to be created on the fly rather than in revision
> control?

Nope, please feel free.  There are no checks for weird characters in the
source package, so there's really no need to have those in the archive
itself.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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