KISS in Guidelines/Micro-Optimizations

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 08:01 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > On 13.03.2008 07:25, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> > So maybe it really just as simple as saying "ban packages with unicode
> > names". or, to be more precise, make it something like: "Package names
> > are limited to 'a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, +, _, .' If you have a package with a
> > different problem come to fedora-packaging-list and discuss with us;
> > once we solved it in a few packages we can write a page like 'Hints how
> > to adjust package names if they contain non-ASCII characters'".
> > 
> I am against anything that leaves the packager with the impression that 
> they should change the package name on their own in this case.
I sense a mis-understanding: I do not want upstreams to change their
tarball-names nor to ban packages from Fedora because their upstream
names are non-ascii.

I want to see the file names of rpms in Fedora to be restricted
7bit-ascii.

E.g. to mandate the rpms being built from écollier-fonts.tar.gz to be
named "ecollier-fonts-*.rpm" and not "écollier-fonts-*.rpm"

Ralf