Joey Hess wrote: > # dpkg --print-avail libperl-<tab>
I would also prefer such a scheme. What about colons in package names? I know that they are currently not allowed but is there a technical reason not to allow them? According to footnote 14 in the packaging manual, colons used to be legal. Was this changed when epochs were introduced? We could then name perl packages like perl-xml::cgi, perl-net::dns and perl-uri, so a search for "xml::cgi" would find the correct package. -- Stefan Gybas
