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

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

I was building kernel for efikamx wich has some uppercase chars
appended to version
but I think I can patch the kernel for that and we can drop
uppercase-letters.patch

Do you want me to update the patch ?

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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