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Bug#969634: ITP: shellescape -- Escape arbitrary strings for use as command line arguments



On Sun, 2020-09-06 at 20:41 +1000, Jai Flack wrote:

> My reason for packaging this is to use the Go library to later 
> package pistol (https://github.com/doronbehar/pistol) which uses it to 
> quote file paths before executing a user configurable command with `sh -c`.

I see. That isn't the greatest design, but it isn't too terrible.

> However I wasn't aware that the functionality was already offered 
> by libstring-shellquote-perl so I should've mentioned this in the 
> description.

It is probably fine to leave that out.

> As a new maintainer does this mean I should only provide the 
> library?

It is probably fine to include the command too.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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