On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 01:05:34PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > This allows the possibility of uppercase letters [1]. But of course > > > distinguishing case of letters is troublesome for some computers. > > > > Can you please explain why is this a problem for us? > > People should be able to convey Debian packages (including source > packages) across such computers. There are all sorts of situations > where a user may for whatever reason have to do so. I'm mostly interested in real examples of such "some computers". > Note that even Debian systems sometimes mishandle this: ISO9660 > (without Rock Ridge) and VFAT filesystems, both of which we commonly > use for distributing our own software, are case-insensitive. From these two at least VFAT, while case-insensitive, is case-preserving. ISO9660 without both Rock Ridge and Joliet is, I suspect, already unsupported. -- WBR, wRAR
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