Re: Bug #513073 - debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity - please reopen

[Sjors Gielen <mailinglist@dazjorz.com>]

Neil Williams schreef:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:07:35 +0100
> Sjors Gielen <mailinglist@dazjorz.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to ask you to reopen this bug. I have sent you a patch which 
> > fixes debhelper so it can unpack on case insensitive file systems or 
> > operating systems. debhelper has in its main directory, next to the 
> > regular debian directory, also a Debian directory which contains Perl 
> > modules.  The patch (see the original bug report) fixes this case 
> > conflict by moving the Debian directory to lib/.
>
> Even if only looking at perl packages installed on my own machine, this
> problem is not unique to debhelper - any package that has a Debian::
> perl module is likely to have exactly the same "problem"/feature.
>
> $ ls /usr/share/perl5/Debian
> AdduserCommon.pm  Debhelper        Dependency.pm          DpkgCross.pm
> AptContents.pm    Defoma           DictionariesCommon.pm  Dwww
> DebConf           Dependencies.pm  DocBase                Packages

Not really. For example the Defoma directory there:

  defoma-0.11.10$ find . -name '*.pm'
  ./pm/Defoma/SubstCache.pm
  [...]

DocBase:

  doc-base-0.8.20$ find . -name '*.pm'
  ./perl/Debian/DocBase/Document.pm

This is a problem of packaging only. For debhelper, this is the current 
situation:

  debhelper-7.0.15$ find . -name '*.pm'
  ./Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/python_support.pm

As you see, the Debian dir here conflicts with the regular debian 
directory on case insensitive filesystems.

> > If I'm correct, OS X may work in case insensitive mode too.
>
> It's been a while since I used OSX but I certainly remember .DS_Store
> directories all over the place and various applications using a mix of
> capitalised and lower case directory names.

So this would not only help debhelper on Win32 platforms, but also on OS 
X in some configurations.

Sjors