[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] Let opkg-build allow uppercase letters

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu May 19 22:07:58 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:09 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> Majority of the changes are backported from OE
> one additional patch is to opkg-utils/opkg-build to allow
> uppercase letters.

Upperspace package names are a violation of debian packaging guidelines
(which OE has aimed to roughly follow) and will break the debian package
backend. At the very least some kind of translation is needed there
before this gets enabled.

Where did this requirement come from?

Cheers,

Richard





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