Re: Package and package file naming and versioning

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

Ian Jackson:
 > One possible disadvantage which might be asserted is that `,' is a
 > metacharacter more often.  This is true, but the contexts in which
 > `,' is a filename metacharacter and `.', `-' and `+' aren't are
 > fairly rare, especially in Unix.  There aren't any in FTP or any of
 > the Debian stuff at the moment.

While I agree that ',' is esthetically pleasing, it's probably worth
noting that it is used by the shell as a metacharacter, for example:

ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.{pre,post}{inst,rm}

-- 
Raul