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Re: packages with nasty names

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

> There's a guy who wants to upload something called "BitchX". It's a patched
> IRC client. Should I make him change the name?

No, we should only force name changes when they violate our packaging
guidelines, ie -  include characters besides alphanumerics and `+-.'.
BitchX is a real program; do a web search on it.  It would only create
confusion for us to rename it.  Do ask him to call it `bitchx', btw, as
dpkg isn't case-sensitive everywhere.

I hardly think a flood of packages with obscene names is imminent.


Guy