Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > This is a hard one. I agree that dpkg shouldn't enforce this (though > perhaps it could recover better).
That's fair. > To throw out a strawman, I suppose 256 characters should be a reasonable > maximum for paths in Debian packages. Running a variant of your script (modified to consult $1 rather than $0 and account for leading slashes) against uncompressed amd64 Contents files gives a maximum length of 211 characters at present for testing and unstable, corresponding to /usr/share/eclipse/dropins/rse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.core.source_3.1.1.201006121442-7a7CEw7sReRSjesfJIs/src/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.core_3.1.1.201006121442/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs so it looks like a limit of 256 should indeed be ample. Thanks for taking the time to revisit this issue, BTW. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?a...@monk.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
