Bug#764077: debsources: case-insensitive browsing by package prefix
Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: minor
User: qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: debsources
The "Browse by prefix" box on sources.debian.net homepage has entries like
"... 7 8 9 W a b c d ... w x y z", where (capital) "W" is an artifact of very
old Debian releases that didn't inforce the rule that package names should only
contain lower case letters.
We should enforce the fact that package prefixes (stored in cache/pkg-prefixes
at update time) contain only lowercase letters, and make prefix browsing
(e.g. http://sources.debian.net/prefix/W/) case-insensitive, so that both
"/prefix/w" and "/prefix/W" give the same result.
Cheers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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