I object to this proposal for the reasons outlined below. I _do_ agree with the spirit of the proposal and would support it if the issues below were resolved.
The amendment should explicitly specify a maximum length rather than the ambiguous "too long and cumbersome". This should be a general policy clarification, not just a perl policy change. Current perl policy provides an unambiguous mapping from CPAN distribution name to debian package name, and vice-versa. If I know the name of the CPAN module distribution I want, I know the name of the debian package which provides it. If I know the name of a debian package, I know the CPAN module distribution it provides. I find this *very* useful. The amendment as proposed would remove this ability. -- _ivan
