On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:32:27 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > 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. > The really absurdly long names Steve found seem to be used for secondary > source tarballs for some v3 source packages, where the file name > essentially includes two full Perl module names. Thanks for the pointer, I admit that I have missed this detail. For the two packages listed in Steve's mail that gives us: libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5-1.debian.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5-1.dsc libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Dispatch-2-17.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-AutoRunmode-0-17.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-ConfigAuto-1-32.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-DBH-4-00.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-DebugScreen-0-06.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-DevPopup-1-06.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-ErrorPage-1-21.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-FillInForm-1-15.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-Forward-1-06.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-LogDispatch-1-02.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-Redirect-1-00.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-Session-1-03.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-Stream-2-10.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-ValidateRM-2-3.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Plugin-ViewCode-1-02.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig-CGI-Application-Standard-Config-1-01.tar.gz libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl_0.5.orig.tar.gz libcgi-application-plugin-authorization-perl_0.07-1.debian.tar.gz libcgi-application-plugin-authorization-perl_0.07-1.dsc libcgi-application-plugin-authorization-perl_0.07.orig-driver-activedirectory.tar.gz libcgi-application-plugin-authorization-perl_0.07.orig.tar.gz > If that's specified in > current Perl policy, it should be fixed (and can be fixed without > confusing users). AFAIK the submodule names were just made up and can be shortened (in fact, for the second package it's already a "made-up" name). (Not that this gives us much room -- in the second case we're already down to 84 characters ...) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms
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