Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >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.
>
> So what's a reasonable name length limit then? 80? 150? 2000?
Do you want it to actually work worth a damn (i.e. not croak on ext2-4, xfs
and btrfs at the very least)?
Don't let it go over 250 *bytes* (not characters. UTF-8 and all that...).
We really need to curb the long name insanity in the head. And might as
well do it in a way that does not hinder our hability to get data where it
is needed, i.e. keep it under 100 chars.
There really is no excuse for such long deb names. If a naming convention
"requires" it, fix the buggy naming convention.
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Henrique Holschuh
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