Comment 21 for bug 432215

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Stefan Neis (stefan-neis) wrote :

I just want to express my support for Maxim Levitsky's position that this should be fixed now:
We (i.e. the company I'm working for) are distributing software that is installed on a USB stick and, unfortunately, the Linux (auto-)start scripts don't handle trailing whitespace in the volume label (or rather in the mount path that's automagically generated from it). I have no idea, what percentage of the end customers of our cross-platform product is actually using Linux (and how many of those are actually using Ubuntu), but having to warn all customers "Well, if you upgrade to the upcoming Ubuntu release, you'll always have to manually unmount the automatically mounted USB device and remount it to a path without trailing spaces prior to starting the application" is going to be bad publicity for everyone involved.
Thanks for your attention.