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Re: dchanges, architecture component, parseable filenames

On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

> [...]
> [ Parseable filenames ]
> ...
> > > The most aesthetic option for (e) I can think of at the moment is
> > > replacing hyphens with underscores in the package name.
> > 
> > That sounds fair to me. Unless I hear a chorus of "that's repulsive"
> > and "this way is better", there may not be a need for a vote. The
> > proposal is to make the package file name be:
> > 
> > PACKAGE_NAME: [^-]*	# Anything but hyphen. Hyphens are replaced
> > 			# by underbars automaticaly.
> 
> I can live with this, and noone has complained.  Wow !  OK, I'll
> change dpkg-name (Erick Branderhorst's script to rename .deb files to
> their canonical names).

Umm ... forgive me if I'm missing the point, Ian, but didn't you just say 
in another post in this thread, that changing package names is a pain?  
Looking at a recent Packages file:

$ grep -c Package:.*- Packages
68
$ grep -c Package:.*_ Packages
2
$ grep -c Package: Packages
429

There are going to be a lot of package names to change ...

Nikhil.