Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:35:09PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> Now preserving interfaces _does_ seem like an objection that's more
> important.  A policy "should" like this (potential) one represents a
> bug but it is not necessarily more important than the other bug of
> breaking compatibility.  Breaking interfaces can be difficult and it
> takes time.  But if that's what it takes to make your path usable
> with dpkg-divert (which is what the filename limit is about), that
> _definitely_ seems worth it to me; and if that's what it takes to
> make your package unpackable on kFreeBSD with a long leading prefix
> that also seems worth it.

FWIW, I do not see any technical reason preventing dpkg-divert to be fixed
not to overstep the limit (by mangling the filename).

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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