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

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:13:48PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> 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 .

Uhh, that sounds about as random as having z be the lowest priority
sorting character. Which is, well, pretty random. :)

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