Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

Alexander Boström abo at kth.se
Thu Mar 13 19:15:20 UTC 2008


tor 2008-03-13 klockan 17:44 +0300 skrev Dmitry Butskoy:
> Alexander Boström wrote:
> > RPMs will probably always need names that everyone can type. That limits
> > it too Latin-1 (regardless of encoding) 
> 
> Please, note that "everyone" cannot type Latin1 .

Yes, one shouldn't have to type latin characters to use Fedora.

But if there's going to be a set of characters one have to be able to
type to do technical things in Fedora (like doing "yum install") then
[A-Za-z0-9] is a reasonable choice and that's also status quo.

/abo




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