Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"):
> No. I don't think package names should be forbidden just because APT
> treats them in a special way. Otherwise you would have to forbid "+" and
> "." anywhere in package names as well as trailing "-" as apt treats all
> of those in a special way:
>
> apt-get -s remove b.sh
> apt-get -s remove ba+sh
WTF. So if you actually want apt-get to work reliably you have to
quote everything ? Surely that's a rather alarming misfeature.
I had a look through archive.debian.org and there are _lots_ of
packages whose names end in `+' (typically, `++'), many of which exist
in sid.
apt-get seems to prefer actual package names to ones resulting from
stripping `+' (which is also IMO a bug).
I haven't (yet) found any package names ending in `-' but I wouldn't
be surprised to find some.
Ian.
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