Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > 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 ;).It doesn't matter if bash or perl is providing this, it's still completly undocumented and works only in some situations due to a detail of implementation. -- see shy jo
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