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[David Owen <david.owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/12/2013 02:27 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 02:59 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
>> "... a name that consists only of lower case letters (a-z), upper case letters
>> (A-Z), digits (0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, periods (.), colons (:),
>> underscores (_) and tildes (~) (essentially a combination of the allowed
>> characters for Ubuntu package names and versions, plus underscores)"
>>
>> Click uses deb files and dpkg underneath, so many of the rules come from
>> Debian/Ubuntu policy. Ie:
>>  * 'pkg' is any legal character for a Debian package[2]
>>  * 'version' is any legal character in a Debian version[3]
>>  * 'app' doesn't have an any Debian policy surrounding it that I am aware of,
>>    but we've defined it elsewhere as anything in the set of characters in
>>    "profile name" (above) except '_' since it is a delimiter
>>
> Whoops, 'app' should include [A-Z] as well.

What do you mean?  That the exclusion of '_' from $app should also
include [A-Z], to make the entire exclusion [A-Z_]?

-David