Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:17:32PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Another question: is Debian policy the right place to make a decisions >> like this? Ideally these maxima would be set using some cross-distro >> standard like POSIX or the FHS. Sadly: > > I do not think it is the purpose of Debian policy to limit file name and path > length without providing guidance. Could you expand on that? What sort of guidance could policy provide? I admit that I have much less interest in this now that I understand current packages are not butting against the practical limits. But I do think that an easily checkable "packages should not have absurdly filenames" (in their files list; I do not mean to say anything about files generated at runtime) could be helpful in communicating * what filesystems are usable for installing Debian? * how many characters of grace area can tools like dpkg-divert feel free to use? * when is enough enough and the current pathname scheme actually a bug that is going to prevent people from being able to install the package? > Most of the time, files path are not chosen by the packager This makes concrete, practically motivated advice about limits more useful, no? Hoping that is clearer, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org