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Re: git, debian/<version> tags, dgit - namespace proposal



On 2015-11-15 21:26:52, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 21:10 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> [...]
> > So this message is:
> > 
> > * A request for anyone to say if they know of a reason I shouldn't do
> >   this.
> [...]
> 
> Deliberately creating identifiers that differ only by case seems
> gratuitously confusing.  Further, it may cause difficulties for someone
> who is packaging for some other operating system and tries to clone a
> dgit repository onto a case-insensitive filesystem (which git generally
> does support).

+1, differing only by case is indeed very confusing.

regards,
iustin

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