[Mageia-sysadm] [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release evolution-data-server-3.3.1.1-1.mga2

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Sun Nov 6 22:27:59 CET 2011


On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 22:12, Olivier Thauvin
<nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
> * Pascal Terjan (pterjan at gmail.com) wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:06, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Why not simply check for %
>> >
>> > It does not belong in the name.
>> >
>
> Since when a '%' is invalid in any name/provide/require ?
>
> The probability is low but not null to deny upload of a valid package. I
> already saw a package having files with '%' in their name...

Well that's my point about the files, it's not a problem, and is
currently rejected.
I have never seen package having a % in the name or in a provide where
it was not a packaging error.


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