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usertags 609162 + normative discussion
severity 609162 normal
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Hi Karl,
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> The debian policy section 9.5 [1] suggests using the package name as a
> file name when creating files in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly,
> /etc/cron.daily etc. This works well *unless* the package name
> includes a dot ('.'), as this forces the file name to include a
> dot. And cron will ignore the files as a result.
Thanks for raising this. I agree that we should change the advice
If a certain job has to be executed at some other frequency or
at a specific time, the package should install a file
/etc/cron.d/<package>
to reflect the run-parts rule
If neither the --lsbsysinit option nor the --regex option is
given then the names must consist entirely of ASCII upper- and
lower-case letters, ASCII digits, ASCII underscores, and ASCII
minus-hyphens.
The current rule for package names (from ยง5.6.1) is
[a-z0-9][-+a-z0-9.]+
so the problematic characters are dot ('.'), which you mentioned,
and plus ('+').
You proposed to advocate substituting hyphens for dots, but that
would create problems when the names of two packages differ only
by punctuation:
great-package
great.package
Maybe we don't have to worry about such an insane case. In any event,
it's easy to avoid that problem by substituting underscores for dots
and P for plus signs.
Sensible? If so, would you like to propose wording for this?
Regards,
Jonathan
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