Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> This is a hard one. I agree that dpkg shouldn't enforce this (though
> perhaps it could recover better).
That's fair.
> To throw out a strawman, I suppose 256 characters should be a reasonable
> maximum for paths in Debian packages.
Running a variant of your script (modified to consult $1 rather than $0
and account for leading slashes) against uncompressed amd64 Contents
files gives a maximum length of 211 characters at present for testing
and unstable, corresponding to
/usr/share/eclipse/dropins/rse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.core.source_3.1.1.201006121442-7a7CEw7sReRSjesfJIs/src/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.core_3.1.1.201006121442/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
so it looks like a limit of 256 should indeed be ample.
Thanks for taking the time to revisit this issue, BTW.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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