> On 04 Nov 2014, at 18:38, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> The Wanderer writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"):
>> On 11/04/2014 at 12:12 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> apt-get seems to prefer actual package names to ones resulting from
>>
The Wanderer writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"):
> On 11/04/2014 at 12:12 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > apt-get seems to prefer actual package names to ones resulting from
> > stripping `+' (which is also IMO a bug).
>
> Can you explain wh
On 11/04/2014 at 12:12 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian
> packaging"):
>
>> No. I don't think package names should be forbidden just because
>> APT treats them in a special way. Otherwise you would have
Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"):
> No. I don't think package names should be forbidden just because APT
> treats them in a special way. Otherwise you would have to forbid "+" and
> "." anywhere in package nam
Hi,
Am Dienstag, den 04.11.2014, 14:26 + schrieb Ian Jackson:
> Joachim Breitner writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"):
> > Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson:
> > > There are probably a lot of things missing. If you
On 11/04/2014 04:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> The 'packagename-' syntax for 'apt-get install' and similar, and the
> 'packagename+' syntax for 'apt-get remove' and similar, are so well and
> so long established that I would argue against changing them at this
> point.
[...]
> Would it be reasonable
On 11/04/2014 at 09:26 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Joachim Breitner writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian
> packaging"):
>
>> Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson:
>>
>>> There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know
Hi,
Ian Jackson:
> ... yes, trailing `-' is permitted in a package name.
>
> Could apt use ! or ~ or something for this purpose ?
>
IMHO, trailing characters are too non-obvious anyway.
Also, ~ is already used in version numbers.
IMHO that's too confusing.
How about "apt-get install foo bar --
Joachim Breitner writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"):
> Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson:
> > There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know about some
> > corner of Debian tooling which has exciting syntax, pleas
Quoting Joachim Breitner (2014-11-03 19:12:41)
> Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson:
>> There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know about some
>> corner of Debian tooling which has exciting syntax, please add the
>> information you have.
>
> apt-get supports a
Hi,
Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson:
> There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know about some
> corner of Debian tooling which has exciting syntax, please add the
> information you have.
apt-get supports appending - to a package name in its argument to
ins
2014-11-03 15:40:46 +, Ian Jackson:
> I have just made this wiki page:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Punctuation
[...]
Just a wee note:
> Character Use in Debian packaging Other important
>uses
[...]
> ^
Stephane Chazelas writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"):
> Just a wee note:
...
> > ^ package, name (in apt-get and other libapt-pkg old shells
> > users)
> [...]
>
> "old shells" (Thomson, Mashey, Bourne) and
I have just made this wiki page:
https://wiki.debian.org/Punctuation
There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know about some
corner of Debian tooling which has exciting syntax, please add the
information you have.
I have deliberately not listed use in regexps, because regexp engines
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