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Re: Whether Revisions should be required

Bill Mitchell writes:
> 
> Its presence, plus not having '-' in the version field, makes it
> possible to parse interesting items of information such as the
> package name or the package file extension out of a package filename.

If you want the package name, you can ask dpkg.  When all is said and
done, THAT is the package name, not whatever the fist letters in the 
filename up to a dash, or whatever method you wanted to use.

Given (nearly) infinite flexibily in nameing packages and version numbers,
*both* of which may have dashes, parsing this information from filename
only becomes an exercise in futility.

Now, consider this:
I make a packages callex modules-1.xxx-1.deb.  In upload, this gets corrupted.
I re-upload this as odules-1.xxx-1.deb, or new-modules, or whatever.

An automated script that parses the name from the filename would trash the 
archive very severely very quickly.

If that's the case, why should other tools rely on methods which 
don't generalize to the general case?

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