[Fedora-packaging] Drafts for next Tuesday

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sun Mar 23 15:48:26 UTC 2008


On Sunday 23 March 2008, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 18:33 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > > ASCII Naming Guidelines (spot) :
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ASCIINaming
> >
> > IMO, this proposal is not strict enough.
> >
> > 1. I think, we need to restrict package names to
> > a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _
>
> Seconded, except I think in addition to those listed, "." (eg.
> openoffice.org) and "+" (eg. gcc-c++) should be fine.

Forgot to note that for the record, like I've always been, I'd still be all 
for going all lowercase, but I fear trying to push this could create a fuss 
which would endanger passing of the whole draft.




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