[Bug ld/32003] Specifying --package-metadata might not be possible and is too fragile

[bdrung at posteo dot de]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32003

--- Comment #25 from Benjamin Drung <bdrung at posteo dot de> ---
(In reply to Luca Boccassi from comment #24)
> (In reply to Benjamin Drung from comment #23)
> > (In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #14)
> > > (In reply to Benjamin Drung from comment #13)
> > > 
> > > Will adding support for "%[string]" to existing
> > > --package-metadata option break anything?
> > 
> > It might theoretical break existing use cases. 
> > 
> > --package-metadata='{"version":"1.0%2"}'
> 
> Are there distros where '%' is an allowed character in a version string or a
> package name? I care about backward compatibility, but we can be sensible
> about it, and if in practice it's not a problem, then it's fine to do such a
> change

For all Debian-based distros: % is neither allowed in the package name nor in
the package version. Who wants to check the other 400 distributions?

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