Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-04-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Kern writes: > On 2011-04-03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> OTOH, do you really want to type >> "apt-get install package-with-policy-compliant-utterly-long-silly-name"? >> There's a point when package name lengths become problematic, and that >> isn't just true for ISO images. > > That's why

broken links

2011-04-03 Thread Faheem Mitha
The search facility corresponding to http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#search-for-package seems broken. Ditto for the other url listed below, namely http://atterer.org/jigdo/jigdo-search.php?list Regards, Faheem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-04-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:56:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > >Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) > > >> using CDs and DV