On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
[...] > What programs are we talking about being compatible with? Not dselect or > dpkg, which don't care about the filename. I'd hazard that dchanges would > be easy to fix. Dftp would ask for the feature, as would the dselect > FTP method. > > Am I missing something? Yes, I think you are missing the whole sunsite and tsx archives, which store packages with an almost standard format. Even though they are not Debian packages right now, some (many?) could be in the future. And the debianized name should be as close to the upstream name as possible. Adding a revision number between the package-and-version block and the extension (almost always tar.gz or tgz) is OK, but touching something within the package-and-version block (which was chosen by the original author) seems to me as an intrusion.
