2009/1/5 Wichmann, Mats D <mats.d.wichm...@intel.com> > rpm-devel-ow...@rpm5.org wrote: > > This off-hand comment regarding Mandriva DUDF -> CUDF > > translation needed by the Mancoosi project reminds me > > of a design mis-feature in RPM: > > > >> - package names: they should match the naming convention we > >> discussed, i.e., only lowercase characters, numbers, dashes or > >> pluses [1] or dots (see section 3.2.2 of D5.1, and in particular the > >> definition of type "pkgname") > > > > With the possible addition of '_', that is an unsuprising set > > of characters to limit package Name: fields to explicitly (i.e. > > cause rpmbuild to fail with characters not in the permitted set). > > > > Its really silly that consensus on an obvious "standard" needs > > to be attempted for RPM in 2009 imho. But better late than never ... > > > > Are there any objections if I limit the characters permitted in Name:? > > > > 73 de Jeff > > Well, there sure are a lot of current packages out there > with uppercase characters in the name....
This limitation sounds good to me, I think many distributions out there has policies on lower case names only, ie. we have in Mandriva (even though it's not always followed by some:/). I still have a concern about compatibility issues though..
