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Re: dchanges and changes file format

Hi,
>>"Bruce" == Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com> writes:
Bruce> At this point I am leaning the other way, toward removing the
Bruce> versions and revisions from file names, as they have been
Bruce> nothing but trouble up to now.  foo-0.93.43-1.deb would become
Bruce> foo.deb .

	I hope you weren't entirely serious (I still have problems
 with american humour), or at least you could be persuaded to lean the
 other way.  There is information available to the human in the
 current naming scheme, and, with the proposal from Andy, (using
 either the double hyphen or the equals sign to delimit the fields),
 would even be machine parsable.

	There are times when I browse the ftp archives looking for
 newer versions of packages, and a) I prefer not having to download
 and refer to the packages file, b) Sometimes packages have been
 uploaded after the last update to the packages file, and c) I get
 things from the Incoming directory at times.  

	Even if none of these activities would be ``officially''
 condoned, I appreciate that I can do so fairly conveniently.  I also
 may now keep a small personal archive without maintaining version
 info elsewhere (like in a psuedo Packages file).

	Even though the naming wars have been tedious, I think that we
 are at the end of the road, and shouldn't give up now.

	Hmmm.  this came out far too earnst. <gets off the soap box>. 

		manoj
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