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Re: case handling of package names in "available" and "status" files



On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 07:15:38PM +0200, Udi Meiri wrote:
> I just wanted to let you know that there is a small and insignificant bug in
> dpkg/dselect.

This is not a bug.

> file. There is one package named "Eterm" with a capitol "E". In the "available"
> file it appears as "Eterm", yet in the status file it comes up as "eterm".
> Dselect also shows the package names as all lowercase.

Package names are case-insensitive and usually all-lowercase.

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