HI Sean, On Do 03 Aug 2017 17:06:19 CEST, Sean Whitton wrote:
Hello Russ, On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:54:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:I like solution (a), honestly. I think we could just add backslash as an escape character that escapes anything other than a newline and have the problem basically go away. It would require a new version of the spec, though, since it's not backward compatible (although I doubt many files contained literal backslashes).Okay.Line-based lists is much less backward-compatible, since we break every debian/copyright file that uses space-separated lists, which is much more common than having whitespace in filenames.My suggestion was that the Files: field could be /either/ a line-based list or a space-separated list -- is there something that would break?
How would differentiate between a blank in a file name and a blank as a separator?
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