Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Kai Henningsen writes ("Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions"):
> "brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca)  wrote
> on 01.11.95 in <"28061 Wed Nov  1 15:31:32 1995"@bnr.ca>>:
> 
> > Dashes within package names are basically required because of things like
> > "emacs" and "emacs-el".  Changing this is likely to upset a lot of people,
> > which makes it difficult to convince the Debian guys to enforce this.
> 
> Hmm. Personally, I'd then simply use "_" in the name.

Gak.  Amongst other things, `-' characters are ugly and harder to
type.

We have consistently been using `-', and we should continue to do so.

Ian.