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| author | Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> | 2008-07-20 12:31:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> | 2008-07-20 12:31:09 -0700 |
| commit | 845766cfb0e892c05e9517aafb1fd480c26f80cb (patch) | |
| tree | ab244d86417650ec7409730ab4212eeb496b4320 /aptitude-defaults.bs | |
| parent | 2d93ca77f1a9068866a9dd7fafe04e1fee1ab18e (diff) | |
| download | aptitude-845766cfb0e892c05e9517aafb1fd480c26f80cb.tar.gz | |
Document how aptitude handles double-quotes.
Because of #260446, apt configuration values can't contain double-quotes,
and so aptitude uses an ad-hoc escaping technique for them (using '' to
represent a double quote). This is now documented in the files where it
actually matters, which hopefully will prevent a recurrence of #483459.
Diffstat (limited to 'aptitude-defaults.bs')
| -rw-r--r-- | aptitude-defaults.bs | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/aptitude-defaults.bs b/aptitude-defaults.bs index 33f8fcc3..794a2d76 100644 --- a/aptitude-defaults.bs +++ b/aptitude-defaults.bs @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ // -*-c++-*- // // This file defines the names of sections known by aptitude for bs. +// +// Due to bug #260446, double-quotes (") cannot be backslash-escaped. +// For this reason, aptitude treats adjacent pairs of apostrophese('') +// as double-quotes: that is, the string "''" in a section description +// will be rendered as one double quote. No other characters are +// affected by this behavior. Aptitude::Sections { |