Bug#609162: debian-policy: package names with dots/periods ('.') and crontab files: packagers beware

2011-09-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:02:27PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > (bcc: cron maintainers, request-tracker3.8 maintainers, debianutils > maintainers, jtmd) > Hi, > > Karl E. Jorgensen noticed that the current advice for naming files in > cron.d breaks for packages with a dot in their name and pro

Bug#609162: [request-tracker-maintainers] debian-policy: package names with dots/periods ('.') and crontab files: packagers beware

2011-09-13 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:02:27PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > (bcc: cron maintainers, request-tracker3.8 maintainers, debianutils > maintainers, jtmd) > Hi, > > Karl E. Jorgensen noticed that the current advice for naming files in > cron.d breaks for packages with a dot in their name and pro

Bug#609162: debian-policy: package names with dots/periods ('.') and crontab files: packagers beware

2011-09-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(bcc: cron maintainers, request-tracker3.8 maintainers, debianutils maintainers, jtmd) Hi, Karl E. Jorgensen noticed that the current advice for naming files in cron.d breaks for packages with a dot in their name and proposed a small policy change to fix that. Seconds? Objections? The proposed