On Monday 12 May 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.48
> Severity: wishlist
>
> It seems that some people may decide that using brace expansion (ie,
> docs/{foo,bar}) in a debian/package.docs file is a good idea. Despite it
> not being documented anywhere, not being an intended syntax, working
> only by accident in certian configurations, and of course, FTBFS if
> /bin/sh is not bash.
Hmm, not quite right.
From Dh_lib:
> if (defined $globdir && ! compat(2)) {
> for (map { glob "$globdir/$_" } split) {
> s#^$globdir/##;
> push @line, $_;
> }
> }
$ cat foo
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(glob('{a,b,c,d}.txt'));
$ perl foo
$VAR1 = 'a.txt';
$VAR2 = 'b.txt';
$VAR3 = 'c.txt';
$VAR4 = 'd.txt';
So, debhelper does indeed provide /bin/sh-independent brace expansion as long
as the compat level is four or above ;).
>
> Could lintian please check all debhelper config files for this
> craziness?
Do you still want such kind of check?
I've already wrote it.
>
> (See #480868.)
Cheers,
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