>>>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > it was brought up by ulm that the news item > '2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16' has an illegal name because it > contains a dot.
I stumbled upon this when I experimented with news to e-mail forwarding, where there are some limitations for the characters allowed in headers. Of course everything can be filtered, but things would be easier if we could stick to the GLEP 42 specification (namely "a"-"z", "0"-"9", "+", "-", and "_"). > The question is what to do now, rename it? Users will then see it > again, and I don't know if there are even worse consequences. > Betelgeuse suggested also commit hook that would check filenames. Infra, would this be possible? Only files with names yyyy-mm-dd-shortname.lang.txt and yyyy-mm-dd-shortname.lang.txt.asc (for detached signature) should be allowed, and character set as mentioned above. Ulrich
