Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mer 12 mars 2008 12:29, Dmitry Butskoy a écrit :
>   
>> Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>     
>>>  * Ban unicode in package names (no draft submitted)
>>>   * Not accepted
>>>
>>>       
>> Oops...
>> The example of such an unicode name used is "écolier-fonts" .
>>
>> Then consider any user in non-latin1 locale. For example, my locale is
>> Russian. I have no "é" on my keyboard...
>>     
>
> An ascii-only alias is provided in the spec file
>
>   

You mean "Provides: foobar" ?

I mean I cannot operate with such a filename (with foreign sumbols) in 
my local copy of the Fedora repository. As well as a sysadmin of the 
primary Fedora sites cannot operate with such filenames, when people 
from "another World" (non Latin1 only) start to add their native-named 
packages into the common Fedora repo.

(Surely if you are not going to deprecate all non-latin language for 
this usage of unicode).


I prefer "Provides(de): foobar" etc., as for "Summary" or 
"%description". Maybe even:

> Name: foobar
> Name(de): foobar
> Name(ru): фубар

but the RPM filename should be named by the primary "C locale" name.

IMO all ideas here should follow the spirit of gettext(3) (LANG, 
LC_MESSAGES, etc.etc.etc)


~buc