Re: Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

Hi,
>>"Stefan" == Stefan Gybas <cab@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

 Stefan> Joey Hess wrote:
 >> # dpkg --print-avail libperl-<tab>

 Stefan> I would also prefer such a scheme. What about colons in
 Stefan> package names? 

        Illegal, since we intriduced epochs. 

 Stefan> I know that they are currently not allowed but is there a
 Stefan> technical reason not to allow them?

        I believe so.

 Stefan> According to footnote 14 in the packaging manual, colons used
 Stefan> to be legal. Was this changed when epochs were introduced?

        I think so. 

        manoj

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