[csw-maintainers] packages names normalization (long)

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 06:47:40PM +0200, Peter FELECAN wrote:
> The reason for which '-' cannot be used in catalogue package, vs. sys V
> pkg, names is that is a "field separator" used for name, version,
> revision, architecture &c; in my understanding, we can use '_' in
> catalogue names and also in sys V pkg. If we want to normalize, your
> example becomes CSWopenssl_rt with a catalogue name of openssl_rt.

except that "_" is invalid for SVR4 pkg naming, for some reason, i believe.