Changeset 1711:1cdfa7c5503e for aptitude-defaults.de

Timestamp:

07/20/08 21:31:09 (2 years ago)

Author:

Daniel Burrows <dburrows@…>

Branch:

default

Message:

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.

Files:

• aptitude-defaults.de (modified) (1 diff)

aptitude-defaults.de

@@ -2 +2 @@
 //
 // This file defines the names of sections known by aptitude for de.
+//
+// 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