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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:08:11 +0200
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Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> writes:

> AFAICT, both Red Hat and Debian allow upper/lower case, so there's no
> reason for us to restrict things.

All Debian packages are lower case, of course.  TAB completion is a
silly argument against using mixed case, but I just couldn't imagine
anyone would want mixed case package names, if they had a choice.
Probably a matter of taste, I'll try to get used to it :-)

Jan.

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