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Bug#525151: Clarify format of source package name



Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.1.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hello,

Policy 5.6.7. `Package' defines "The name of the binary package.", but
it does not seem that the format of source package names is restricted
anythere.  Sanity as well as, I'd say, common use, would say source has
the same format as binary.

Clarifying it would be as trivial as this:

 5.6.7. `Package'
 ----------------

-     The name of the binary package.
+     The name of the source and binary package.


Ciao,

Enrico


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

debian-policy depends on no packages.

debian-policy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii  doc-base                      0.9.1      utilities to manage online documen

-- no debconf information



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