Hi, On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 05:23:46PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > As discussed during DebConf, I agree with the goal but I'm not entirely > > happy with the proposed use of “x-”, as the dash breaks current > > assumptions of what's what depending on the position relative to it. > What I've been thinking about is to use a different character, for > example ~, so we'd have “~arch” denoting an unofficial architecture, > or “~foo-bar” which would not break the - notation. I've tried with a tilde both as prefix and as suffix, and both are a mess to get working properly through the entire toolchain: - (suffix) Architecture specific debhelper files are interpreted as backup files by dh_clean and subsequently deleted - (prefix) If the argument to -a is separated with a space, the shell could interpret it as a home directory - dpkg-buildpackage refuses the architecture name while parsing dpkg-architecture output - dpkg-cross generates an invalid package name when it copies the architecture name into the generated package's name The latter two are fixable, but mean that more tools are affected; the former two I believe to be real showstoppers. I think the "x-" notation is the cleanest one still; the other options I can see are "unofficial-" (but third party vendors might not like to have the word "unofficial" show up in every package name), "vendor-" (somewhat nice, as you can follow it up with a vendor name), a percent sign (still requires massive changes, but at least no showstoppers here), or an underscore (probably breaks other stuff as it is used as a field separator in several places, but at least there is precedent for a trailing underscore as a marker in dpkg). Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
