On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 06:31:38PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >Hi, > >In order to manage package file name length below 90 and to have sane >screen for package management, may I suggest to recommend some limits >(for lintian check etc.): > > * package name string should be less than 40 characters. > * version name string should be less than 30 characters. > (security updates etc. excluded) > >Older part of maint-guide text recommend to use 20 or less for package >name for last 10 years or so. This may be too short for the modern system >but it is good to have some commonly agreed limits as recommendation. > >I will be bumping limit numbers in maint-guide to these. > >See below for my rationale with the statistics. > >On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:48:23PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:54:49AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >... >> >Don't let it go over 250 *bytes* (not characters. UTF-8 and all that...). > >Why UTF-8? We should keep it within ASCII so any system can display all >package file name. In ASCII range, UTF-8 and ASCII are the same byte >sequence.
We should stick to ASCII, yes. Our original problem (Joliet filename lengths) shows up again here - Joliet is encoded in UCS-2 for Windows use, so the limit we're stuck with is ~180 bytes or ~90 characters. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110427135220.ga22...@einval.com
