Bug#501390: Does not accept multiple --debbuildopts options

[Junichi Uekawa]

At Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:03:38 +1100,
Drew Parsons wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:53 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Doesn't space-delimiting with some random recipe of backslashes work?
> > I seem to remember it used to work.
> 
> Yeah looks like that works.  Taking
> 	pdebuild --debbuildopts -a\ -b 

> instead of the documented ("space-delimited")
> 	pdebuild --debbuildopts -a -b

But this isn't space-delimiting. Your shell is going to eat the space.


pdebuild --debbuildopts "-a -b"

is the right way (depends on your shell, of course).

 
> 
> The --debbuildopts entry in the pdebuild man page needs to be changed if
> this is to be considered the correct solution.