On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:56:14 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > We already have arbitrary limits on filename length (~200 bytes or so > > on RockRidge), even before this. I'm just proposing to lower them for > > a common use case. Do we really care about supporting *very* long > > names here? > I think so. The package with long names tend to follow a naming policy > that sort of imposes the long name... so if we put a too-short limit > then we're asking them to make an exception in the naming policy. Right, that's certainly true for the lib.*-perl packages, and I wouldn't know how we should rename them in a sane way. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Peter Jones: I Can Feel You
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