Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:54:49AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >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.
>
> I'm pushing for a little less than that, then the Joliet problems go
> away. We get an absolute maximum of 103 (Unicode) chars there, so I'm
> going to push for a max of 90 for normal uploads. That allows for
> small amounts of growth for security updates etc.
Looks very sane. I like it!
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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