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Bug#237734: dpkg: should support single character package names



On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> This is more policy than anything else...  I don't know if there's any
> technical reason why you can't have single-character package names.

There isn't, and dpkg should support it throughout.

> Either way, cl-debian should be Debian-policy conforming and reject
> them; the patch to parsehelp.c could be accepted though.

cl-debian should follow dpkg rules, not debian policy.




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