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Proposal: Merge Package Name Parts (Sec. 5.6.1 and 5.6.7)



Hi:

>From reading sections 5.6.1 and 5.6.7, the package name
conventions/restrictions are the exact same.

"Package names must consist only of lower case letters (a-z), digits
(0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.). They must be at
least two characters long and must start with an alphanumeric
character." (5.6.7)

and

"Package names must consist only of lower case letters (a-z), digits
(0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.). They must be at
least two characters long and must start with an alphanumeric
character." (5.6.1)

So this means they would be a good candidate to merge together, or for
one to reference the other. For example if Section 5.6.7 would say:
"Please see Section 5.6.1 for the naming conventions, binary package
names follow the same restrictions as their source counterparts"

It also means that programs working with those fields can reasonably
expect that the syntax accepted by one field (the Source field) will
not ever be out of sync from the other (the Package field). And it
also means that one won't inadvertently update one while forgetting
about the other.

As this is a minor change I don't think that it needs seconds, once
someone picks it up and pushes it to the master.

Cheers,

Jonathan


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