Hi! On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 15:54:41 -0800, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > على الأحد 23 تشرين الأول 2016 06:52، كتب Guillem Jover: > > Control: tags -1 patch > > Control: retitle -1 adduser: Please accept underscore prefixed system names > > > [...] > > I've implemented a new SYS_NAME_REGEX so that at least system names > > can accept _-prefixed values. This is the standard used on various > > BSDs, it is vendor neutral (not just a Debianism), and it is short > > causing way less display problems. > > > > I don't think accepting _-prefixed names for normal users would be > > wise, as that would remove the namespaced disctinction. > > > > Having this in the archive would allow us to promote these system > > names, and use them w/o needing the --force-badname option!
> This is somewhat similar to #432562. The difference, as I see it, is > capital letters + compatibility with Ubuntu versus underscores + > compatibility with BSDs. I don't see that any of the breakage concerns > originally raised in #432562 apply to this suggestion. Well using _-prefix is vendor neutral, and shorter so in addition causes less display issues. > I am also in favor of reducing unnecessary incompatibilities that can > cause confusion. People of #432562, do you have any comments? At least Ian seemed to retract his previous support for Debian-style names in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00577.html>, but I'll let him confirm this. I also think allowing Debian-style names by default would be a bad idea, and I'm glad that bug is marked as wontfix. ;) (You might also like to check the thread starting at <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00546.html>.) Thanks, Guillem