Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> writes: > It seems to me that it would be simplest just to copy the text from > 5.6.7 (Package) to 5.6.1 (Source). Technically this imposes a new > requirement on source packages that's slightly stricter than that > imposed by dpkg-source, which from my brief reading of the code would > theoretically permit colons, commas, equals signs, and tildes too, but > I see no reason why those would be desirable and have never heard of > anyone trying to use them in source package names. I agree with you > that sanity and common use say that the two classes of package names > have the same format. > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 0140043..144cbfb 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -2588,6 +2588,14 @@ Package: libc6 > package control file when the source package has the same > name and version as the binary package. > </p> > + > + <p> > + Package names must consist only of lower case letters > + (<tt>a-z</tt>), digits (<tt>0-9</tt>), plus (<tt>+</tt>) > + and minus (<tt>-</tt>) signs, and periods (<tt>.</tt>). > + They must be at least two characters long and must start > + with an alphanumeric character. > + </p> > </sect1> > > <sect1 id="f-Maintainer"> > > I'm seeking seconds for this.
Looks right to me. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
