Re: dpkg-source v2

[Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 18:01, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
> > -rw-r--r--    1 walters  src         17006 2002-07-18 16:41 evolution_1.0.7-2.debian.tar.bz2
> > -rw-r--r--    1 walters  src           792 2002-07-18 16:41 evolution_1.0.7-2.dsc
> > -rw-r--r--    1 walters  walters   1954117 2000-08-13       evolution:db_3.1.17.orig.tar.gz
> > -rw-r--r--    1 walters  walters  13852125 2002-06-16 23:45 evolution:evolution_1.0.7.orig.tar.gz
> > walters@space-ghost>
> > 
> > You will notice that the source packages are prefixed with
> > "evolution:"; this is to prevent namespace conflicts.
> 
> I wonder why an underscore cannot be used there. It would be a lot less
> strange-looking.

Ok, I had originally considered the underscore, but I at first thought
there was a parsing ambiguity.  I think you're right in that there isn't
one.  Thanks; I will change it.




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