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Re: Guidelines docs on ftp.debian.org.

On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

[...]
> >     <name>-<upstream-version>-<debian-revision>-<extension>
> 
> `They' ?  I presume you mean filenames.  If so, such a structure for
> filenames hasn't explicitly been mandated.  In fact, there is no
> unambiguous mapping from filenames to package and version.
> 
> >    name:              no restriction
> >    upstream-version:  no '-' chars allowed (probably transliterate to '_')
> >    debian-revision:   no '-' or '.' chars allowed
> >    extension:         no '-' chars allowed
> 
> This has not been a requirement.
> 
> The requirements are set out in the Guidelines, which [...]

There was quite a protracted discussion of this in debian-devel
(or, possibly, debian-private) a couple of months back.  This
was my understanding of the consensus reached.  I assumed that
this consensus would have been reflected in the packaging
guidelines.  Never assume.  I should have learned that lesson
several decades ago.

> I still don't understand why dchanges needs to get this kind of thing
> out of filenames.

I've posted several examples of the sort of difficulties not being
able to parse package names causes dchanges to have.

Anybody want to take over dchanges?  If so, I'll stop grousing
about this.