On tis, 2011-02-15 at 15:32 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I can't claim close familiarity with Debian's conventions in this
> matter, but I do know about RPM's, and I'm uneager to duplicate that
> silliness. Magic conversion of dots to underscores (sometimes),
> complete inability to determine which part of the package filename is
> which without external knowledge, etc.
FYI, the system in Debian is that '_' separate package name and version,
and '_' is not allowed in package name or version. I guess since we
want to allow both '_' and '-' in package names, we can't really do that
or anything similar.