Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

[bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

From: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
> Personally, I also think we'll be better off if we bite the bullet and
> try to maintain as much backwards compatability as we can with current
> package naming usage than if we fall into a pattern of blowing off
> backwards compatability issues in the interest of implementor convenience.

What programs are we talking about being compatible with? Not dselect or
dpkg, which don't care about the filename. I'd hazard that dchanges would
be easy to fix. Dftp would ask for the feature, as would the dselect
FTP method.

Am I missing something?

	Thanks

	Bruce
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