Alien does not recognize quote-escaped filenames

[Ansus]

It is impossible to convert a package located in a directory whose path contains spaces.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time for helping with making Ubuntu better. However, it's not a bug, but a general policy.

Spaces in commands have to be escaped with a back slash: \ 'alien Directory with spaces/rpmfile.rpm' should actually be 'alien Directory\ with\ spaces/rpmfile.rpm'.
This is because spaces mark the borders between different arguments passed to programs.

[Ansus (neptunia)]

Then why there are apostrophes?

In fact if you drag and drop a file icon from file browser to a command line, it inserted without back slashes. If the convention is to use slashes for spaces, then it should insert slashes to make file name appropriate.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

That would make it a bug in GNOME Terminal. I'll open a task for that program.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Could you please give the version of GNOME Terminal you're using?

[Ansus (neptunia)]

2.24.1.1

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I'm unable to confirm this bug with the alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04.
Ansus, could you please check if the bug is still reproducible?

[Ansus (neptunia)]

I am not planning upgrade to Jaunty before its release. I willl test it as soon as I upraded.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I don't believe this is a bug in either the terminal or the file manager but in alien which can't yet process quote-escaped filenames so reassigning to alien.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This is now fixed in alien 8.85 and higher (which is present in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric"0