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Re: Unusual characters in filenames in Lintian's testset



On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:40:39PM -0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:43:41 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >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/:
> [...]
> > -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?
> 
> I've removed the file in the git repository and verified that HEAD passes a 
> "bzr init && bzr add && bzr commit".

Thanks! This had clearly fallen off my to-do list ...

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]


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