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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #69585, comment 21

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39		I would guess that this was not intentional and it was simply not considered that a filename that we might want to test would contain the `+` character. The problem would also occur for any filenames we might test that contain other special regex characters—like `*`, `[`, `]`, `{`, `}`, `(`, `)`—but I don't think we've encountered those. `.` is also a special regex character meaning "any character" although that has not led to any problems.
	39	I would guess that this was not intentional and it was simply not considered that a filename that we might want to test would contain the `+` character. The problem would also occur for any filenames we might test that contain other special regex characters—like `*`, `^`, `$`, `[`, `]`, `{`, `}`, `(`, `)`—but I don't think we've encountered those. `.` is also a special regex character meaning "any character" although that has not led to any problems.
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41	41	One solution is to change all depspecs and escape all special regex characters. For example, the depspec `path:lib/pkgconfig/gtk\\+-3\\.0\\.pc:gtk3` allows gtk3-devel to be used but this is ugly; we surely don't want to have to write that in every Portfile. The double backslash is needed because one level of escaping is interpreted by Tcl before it gets interpreted as a regex.