Re: Allowed characters in package names

[richard@sfere.uk.geeks.org (Richard Kettlewell)]

That strikes me as a possible reason not to deprecate `.', personally.
What good reasons are there for deprecating `.'?

Michael Alan Dorman writes:
>Ian Jackson writes:

>>Should `.' also be deprecated ?
>
>If you forbid them, does that also apply to the conflicts and provides
>lines?
>
>If not, I'd even be willing to rebuild ncurses as ncurses30 and we
>could forbid '.' if we so desire.

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