Filenames with spaces not supported on command line

Bug #735412 reported by Daniel
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Debian
Fix Released
Unknown
gpsprune (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gpsprune

gpsprune refuses to start when called from command line like this when the file name contains whitespaces:
gpsprune "a track file.gpx"

The provided patch (against version 10-1) solves the problem

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Daniel (hackie) wrote :
tags: added: patch
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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) wrote :

Doesn't the command in the second 'else' branch (last line of the patch) need to be modified in the same way?

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Daniel (hackie) wrote :

Yes. Don't know why I didn't see that.. :/

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Daniel (hackie) wrote :

Added corrected patch (with all 3 variants changed)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for providing a patch for this bug report. This particular package is synchronized with Debian so it would be quite helpful if you were to forward the patch to the Debian bug tracker. You can learn more about how to use the Debian bug tracker at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/Bugs. After you've forwarded the bug report and patch please add a bug watch, following the procedure at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Watches, so we can track the progress of the upstream bug report.

Changed in gpsprune (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

There actually seems to already be a Debian bug report about this same issue.

Changed in debian:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Changed in debian:
status: Unknown → New
tags: added: patch-accepted-debian
removed: patch
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gpsprune - 12.1-2

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gpsprune (12.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix passing filenames with spaces, patch from Ubuntu
    (Closes: #598977, LP: #735412)

gpsprune (12.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
  * Fix debian/watch to match upstream versions
  * Standards-Version bump to 3.9.2, no changes needed
  * Updated copyright years
  * Bump debhelper compatibility to 8
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:50:25 +0000

Changed in gpsprune (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in debian:
status: New → Fix Released
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