On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 07:45 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:09 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > Some packages have uppercase letters in their names e.g.
> > efikamx kernel. We allow uppercase character with
> > uppercase-letters.patch
>
> This is not a good idea. Uppercase characters have never been permitted
> in .deb/.ipk.
>
> Isn't legitimize_package_name() crunching them to lower case for you?
> If not then I think it should be made to do that.
I just checked the code and it certainly looks like it should be doing
that:
# Remaining package name validity fixes
return s.lower().replace('_', '-').replace('@', '+').replace(',',
'+').replace('/', '-')
So if that isn't working for you then I think it needs a bit of
debugging.
p.
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