ambiguity in the guidelines

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 06:43:35 UTC 2006


On 7/5/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> Do you seriously think relying on regexes for parsing out data is safe
> and reliable for human-inputted strings w/o confirmation?

About as safe as anything rpmlint detects now.  But the discussion is
moot because there is no reason to actually parse the string right
now.  If you had some killer feature that required parsing of the
change log entries then it would be worth discussing.




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