Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "VS" == Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> writes:
> 
> VS> And by the way, in my opinion the discussion should not be only
> VS> about Unicode, but about restricting package names even to a
> VS> subset of ASCII (let's say eg.  a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, +, _, .).
> 
> This is why we need a concrete proposal to vote on.  Things would have
> gone much better if we had one.
> 
+1

One of the problems I have with "ban packages with unicode names" is 
that it doesn't consider what to do when a package name upstream is 
non-ASCii.  My -1 vote is really a vote against having the Fedora 
packager make up a name for an upstream package which I very strongly 
oppose.  If a proposal were written that told what the packager needs to 
do to get an acceptable package name I'd likely abstain or (possibly) agree.

-Toshio

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