Re: Proposal: Merge Package Name Parts (Sec. 5.6.1 and 5.6.7)
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Steve Langasek<vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 03:12:54PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
>
>> >From reading sections 5.6.1 and 5.6.7, the package name
>> conventions/restrictions are the exact same.
>
>> "Package names must consist only of lower case letters (a-z), digits
>> (0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.). They must be at
>> least two characters long and must start with an alphanumeric
>> character." (5.6.7)
>
>> and
>
>> "Package names must consist only of lower case letters (a-z), digits
>> (0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.). They must be at
>> least two characters long and must start with an alphanumeric
>> character." (5.6.1)
>
>> So this means they would be a good candidate to merge together, or for
>> one to reference the other. For example if Section 5.6.7 would say:
>> "Please see Section 5.6.1 for the naming conventions, binary package
>> names follow the same restrictions as their source counterparts"
>
>> It also means that programs working with those fields can reasonably
>> expect that the syntax accepted by one field (the Source field) will
>> not ever be out of sync from the other (the Package field). And it
>> also means that one won't inadvertently update one while forgetting
>> about the other.
>
>> As this is a minor change I don't think that it needs seconds, once
>> someone picks it up and pushes it to the master.
>
> Note that this duplication is a recent change that was *introduced* in the
> latest version of Policy, so I don't think "doesn't need seconds" is as
> self-evidently correct as you suggest.
Oh. Interesting. I was (clearly) unaware of that. How recently was
this? What was the reasoning behind it? Are package name restrictions
for Source and Binary packages going to fall out of sync in the
future?
>
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