Hi Taylor, thanks for your patch. It makes sense to me, and has the beneficial side effect of avoiding a sed pass to do some poor men shell escaping. Before applying, however, can you please update it to: - include a reasonable comment (as suggested by David) - avoid patching the shebang line (ditto) - coalesce the sprintf() line into the following symlink line (using sprintf seems redundant here: it's plain string concatenation) Thanks! Cheers. PS please Cc:-me on replies -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences ...... http://upsilon.cc/zack ...... . . o Debian Project Leader ....... @zack on identi.ca ....... o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »