On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 07:51:47PM +0300, Mitt Green wrote:
> No idea, why they did it,
> but anyway, who uses whitespaces in
> names of scripts? I always get
> rid of them even when naming
> wallpapers.

script names: no.
C/Pascal/COBOL sources: no.
mp3/videos/ebooks/etc: hell yes.

The change is breaking valid use cases.


The relevant bug is
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813164
-- but I ask you: don't go there just to whine (yes, the change is a
steaming piece of crock but this has already been said). If you post
to that bug, please add only _new_, rational, polite arguments.
And I've already submitted a patch and identified the offending commit
in upstream VCS.

It looks like everyone but Pádraig Brady (the upstream developer who did
this) and ansgar agree. And the Debian maintainer of coreutils has set
severity to "serious" to stop this bad change from migrating.

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A tit a day keeps the vet away.