Bug#863118: devscripts needs proper configuration file parsing

[Adam D. Barratt]

On 2017-05-22 9:14, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> devscripts.conf(5) says:
> 
>   The two configuration files are /etc/devscripts.conf for system-wide
>   defaults and ~/.devscripts for per-user settings. They are written
>   with bash(1) syntax, but should only have comments and simple 
> variable
>   assignments in them; they are both sourced (if present) by many of 
> the
>   devscripts scripts.
> 
> 
> This is a hack, not a proper handling of the configuration.

fwiw, the maintainers have been in violent agreement with this for 
years, but it needs someone with tuits to replace the current situation 
with a solution that's usable from all the languages included in 
devscripts and maintains the existing semantics (it's not just simple 
key=value pairs, users are actively relying on being able to use shell 
within the file in some cases, and that at least needs considering).

Regards,

Adam