Re: Policy or Limitation
Keita Maehara wrote:
> But the reason is not mentioned here. Some upstream sources use upper
> case letters for their name and we may also want to use upper case
> letters for our packages. Why can't we use upper case letters?
For consitency. It's much easier if you know a package's name is always
lowercase, because then if you remember only the name you can find it
easily w/o worrying about case. It's also easier to type.
> If multiple upstream sources are needed to build a package, we have to
> integrate them into only one source, namely
> "<package>_<upstreamversion>.orig.tar.gz" (".orig" may be dropped).
>
> And we cannot use pristine upstream source if it unpacks its contents
> directly into current directory, or badly named (from a Debian's point
> of view) directory and so on.
>
> Is this policy or limitation?
Limitation.
> 3. patches
>
> If multiple patches (including Debian patch) are needed to build a
> package, we have to integrate them into only one patch, namely
> <package>_<upstream>-<debianversion>.diff.gz.
>
> Is this policy or limitation?
Limitation.
2. and 3. are handled in an experimental version of dpkg, IIRC.
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