[Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#476861: Bug#383921: Bug#383921: Bug#476861: dctrl-tools: option to match against package-name boundaries

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:23:26AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > Would it make sense to instead rule out any character that would be
> > a part of a package name?
> 
> Uhm, I don't think so, because that set of characters is not
> "symmetric", e.g. a package cannot start with a -, but can contain it
> and other similar details. You can of course come up with a proper
> regexp, but I found delimiters more appropriate for this specific
> case.

Ok.

> When I first hacked up the patch, I did not get that those flags were
> specific of grep-dctrl pattern "particles" (i.e., that --whole-pkg
> should be repeated on different sub-patterns). Now that I'm aware of
> it, I think it does make sense, what's your take on it?
> 
> Nevertheless, that "implication" is currently annoying for the user
> because if you specify both -e and --whole-pkg you will get an
> error. What would be your preferred fix for this?

The error is from set_mode, yes?  Probably should have it suppress the error if
you specify the same mode multiple time.

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