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Re: dchanges, architecture component, parseable filenames

> 5. Priority/Section information: someone (Carl?) needs to decide the
> data flow structure for Priority and Section information.  Currently
> the information in the overrides file on the FTP site is considered
> canonical by the Packages file cronjob and thus by dselect, and any
> information in .deb files is optional and purely advisory.  What
> happens at the moment to this information if it appears in changes
> files is unclear to me.
The overrides file can become obsolete if we specify Priority and
Section in the packages, in this way even less human interaction is
needed for putting packages in the right place.

> e) Encode hyphens in package names and/or version numbers as some
> other character; perhaps changing hyphens in package names to
> underscores (which aren't legal in package names at the moment), eg
> ncurses_term-1.9.8a-4 (where the package is ncurses-term, version
> 1.9.8a-4).  This has the disadvantage of being a little less than
> obvious.
I hate underscores, but I don't watn to hold up automating and
the progress of next releases. I would like to make one suggestion that
dpkg and dselect will be a little gentle to user input and treat
a "-" in a package name as a "_".
Something like
dpkg --status ncurses-term
would be the same as
dpkg --status ncurses_term

Providing a backwardcompatible user interface. 

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Erick Branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL