From: Bruno Haible <haible AT ilog DOT fr>
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:54:47 +0100 (CET)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP specific patch for libiconv-1.5.1
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Eli Zaretskii writes:

> >    To resolve the name conflict, new directories are created while unzipping.
> >    Filenames like iso8895_XX.h resolve to the same filename iso8895_.h
> >    on plain DOS. This can be avoided by extracting this files into a new
> >    directory. Example:
> >      lib/iso8859_XX.h    become lib/ISO/8859_XX.h
> >      lib/iso2022_XXXX.h  become lib/ISO/2022_XXXX.h
> >      lib/isoir165XXX.h   become lib/ISO/ir165XXX.h
> 
> Why cannot the official package be restructured so that it already has
> all those directories?

This is unacceptable. It is exactly what I mean with "unduly
restrictions for the maintainer".

Bruno