X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from mail.wtbts.no (mail.wtbts.no [213.234.126.131]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF4D158F590 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (bsna.nor.wtbts.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wtbts.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53F2AE4002 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:42:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Yes Received: from mail.wtbts.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bsna.nor.wtbts.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id d4Hn8ovvC8Ae for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ytre.org (extmail.nor.wtbts.net [10.65.72.14]) by mail.wtbts.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3266AE4001 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ytre.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ytre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934D560A804F7 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.65.96.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ncopa@ytre.org) by mail.ytre.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6324E60A804F6 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:42:25 +0200 From: Natanael Copa To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: [alpine-devel] [RFC] package name policy change Message-ID: <20110706204225.148b1b52@alpinelinux.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Hi, I would like to propose a new package naming policy that simply forbids use the characters that needs to be url encoded to be used in an url. The reason is simply that those chars makes web services from scripts slightly more complicated. We already had an issue[1] with this. For example: pkgname=gtk+2.0 wget http://example.com/someservice?pkgname=$pkgname Does anyone have anything against this change? Other comments? [1] http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/693 --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---