[dput-ng-maint] Bug#710150: does not accept multiple changes files

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Arno,

On Tue, May 28, 2013 18:32, Arno Töll wrote:
> That's a UI ambiguity we have to cope with because we claim to be API
> compatible to dput. You don't want to know what dput does to resolve
> this ambiguity by using a heuristic. We are unsure how to address this
> properly. We basically have three choices:
>
> a) don't support multiple changes files
> b) make either positional a switch taking arguments and thus breaking
> the command line compatibility with dput.
> c) implement the same heuristic as dput and die a little bit inside.
>
> None of this sounds very appealing, but we'll think about it.

Would treating anything /.*\.changes$/ to not be a [HOST] be a simple yet
effective heuristic?


Thijs