Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:43 PM, John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org> wrote:
>> Compatible with what? Bugs in other implementations?
>> What does that really gain us?
>
> The ability for the discs to be read on as many systems as possible. I'm
> not going to pretend to know what all someone else may need to do with
> the data, but making it as readable as possible is certainly a laudable
> goal.
Sure, but is it more important than other goals like supporting long filenames?
> A plausible scenario is someone having downloaded the images, burned
> them, and is now trying to read them prior to installation. If they are
> performing this on a Microsoft or Apple OS, and the filenames are
> corrupted, the implication is that the images are either corrupt or the
> burn was otherwise bad.
What Apple and MS OSs are affected?
--
Olaf
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