Comment 16 for bug 27767

Daniel Kobras wrote:
> > Gnah. You are correct. I'm extending the list of forbidden characters
> > by $().
>
> Upstream has reverted the blacklist and instead went for an improved
> version of the symlink fix I added to ImageMagick in unstable. The patch
> is more involved, but also more robust and doesn't impose limits on
> allowed filenames. If you're interested I can extract the changes from
> upstream SVN.

I've sen your patch and decided against it since it is quite intrusive.
The blacklist approach should be sufficient for the updates in our stable
releases.

Regards,

 Joey

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