Checking out the source repo on case-insensitive file systems

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Subject: Checking out the source repo on case-insensitive file systems
From: Ulysses Zhan <ulysseszhan@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:48:47 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 463d5d79-f6b3-4f46-8727-556bea64902d@gmail.com>

Hi developers of dpkg,

Some time ago, maintainers of nixpkgs found that in the source repo of dpkg, there are two files, namely scripts/t/Dpkg_BuildTree.t and scripts/t/dpkg_buildtree.t, which have the same path other than capitalizations. This makes it hard to check out the source codes on case-insensitive file systems, so workarounds and patches are needed to compile dpkg on those systems. I think it would be a good idea to change the filenames so that they can be regarded as different paths on case-insensitive file systems.

Best regards,


	UlyssesZhan a.k.a. 有丘直方
	He/Him/His
Email: UlyssesZhan@gmail.com
Website: UlyssesZh.github.io

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