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Bug#200461: debian-policy: Add to 2.3.1 : The package name must not consist exclusively of zeds.



Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.10.0
Severity: minor

Sometimes one needs to install a file in a run-parts or other "parts"
directory that will be processed first or last.  Often the other
files in the directory are named after the packages that own them.
To make the target file get processed first, one can add numerals
to the beginning of its name.  To make the target file get processed
last, one can add zeds to the beginning of its name.   However, the
latter method could conceivably fail if someone were to install a
package named "zzz" into the Debian archive.  Therefore, package 
names consisting entirely of zeds should be prohibited in 2.3.1 .

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux thanatos 2.4.21 #3 Wed Jun 18 21:35:52 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

-- no debconf information




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