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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Make it clear that PMs are allowed to handle 'invalid' names.
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:41:12
Message-Id: 1348353666-10513-1-git-send-email-mgorny@gentoo.org
1 ---
2 names.tex | 6 ++++--
3 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
4
5 diff --git a/names.tex b/names.tex
6 index decc8f4..5a3866f 100644
7 --- a/names.tex
8 +++ b/names.tex
9 @@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
10
11 \section{Restrictions upon Names}
12
13 -No name may be empty. Package managers must not impose fixed upper boundaries upon the length of any
14 -name. A package manager should indicate or reject any name that is invalid according to these rules.
15 +No name may be empty. Package managers must not impose fixed upper
16 +boundaries upon the length of any name. A package manager should
17 +indicate or reject any name that is invalid according to these rules.
18 +Package managers are allowed to accept names not following those rules.
19
20 \subsection{Category Names}
21 A category name may contain any of the characters [\t{A-Za-z0-9+\_.-}]. It must not begin with
22 --
23 1.7.12

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