Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

To: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Cc: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: DEP-5: general file syntax
From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:32:19 -0400
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1282381768.12989.312.camel@havelock> (Lars Wirzenius's message of "Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:09:28 +1200")
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Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:

> Files has a list
> of values (currently comma-separated, but I propose to make it
> white-space separated), 

File names can have spaces. Not common, but possible. I guess such file
names would need to be quoted?

-- 
-- Stephe

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