Bug#788251: tracker.debian.org: Please sanitize package names
Package: tracker.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Hi there,
according to Debian policy 5.6.1 Debian package names may only
contains lower-case characters (among others).
However, It just happened to me that I typed "evolution" into the
"Jump to Package..." field and the auto-correction of my phone (yay!)
corrected it into the actual German word "Evolution", that is the same
but starting with an upper-case letter. The Tracker then told me
"Package Evolution does not exist". :(
I think, it would be reasonable to automatically convert upper-case
characters into lower-case characters for package names entered into
the "Jump to Package..." field, because package names with upper-case
characters do not exist as per policy, so this must definitely be a
typo.
Thank you!
- Fabian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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