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Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames



On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:56:14 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> > We already have arbitrary limits on filename length (~200 bytes or so
> > on RockRidge), even before this. I'm just proposing to lower them for
> > a common use case. Do we really care about supporting *very* long
> > names here?
> 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.

Right, that's certainly true for the lib.*-perl packages, and I
wouldn't know how we should rename them in a sane way.
 

Cheers,
gregor
 
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