Re: Package names

To: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
Cc: Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>, Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Package names
From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 10:36 EDT
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  Martin> I'm totally confused now.  Shall new uploads (i.e. bugfixes) use
  Martin> the underscore as delimiter betwen the name of the package and the
  Martin> version or do we stay on the old way until 1.1 is released?

  Guy>  It doesn't matter.  dinstall will rename them to the right thing.

It does matter. As Bruce pointed out yesterday, debian.rules should build the
Right Thing. 

So? What is the recommendation? Use dpkg-name from dpkg-1.2.6?

-- 
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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