Deb packages are case insensitive, breaks puppet. about fpm HOT 5 CLOSED

I think I'll have it abort if you build a package with capital letters in it - if only to fix human behaviors - if I just downcase it internally, you might think you got the package name with capital letters in it and go on and tell puppet with capital letters.

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Yeah, that's kind of annoying. Though it seems like a bug to be fixed with puppet, forcing downcase seems like reasonable behavior as long as that's a convention everyone sticks to. Although I know there are packages like VirtualBox-OSE that appear every once in a while, I suppose it's all the same internally.

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It's not a bug with puppet, I think, that was just a use case. Check out this example:

% fpm -s dir -t deb -n FooBarBaz -C /home/jls --prefix /opt/foobar ~/.zshrc
Created .../FooBarBaz_1.0_amd64.deb

% dpkg --info FooBarBaz_1.0_amd64.deb | grep Package
 Package: FooBarBaz

% sudo dpkg -i FooBarBaz_1.0_amd64.deb
Selecting previously deselected package foobarbaz.
(Reading database ... 239045 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking foobarbaz (from FooBarBaz_1.0_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up foobarbaz (1.0) ...

% dpkg -l FooBarBaz
No packages found matching FooBarBaz.

% dpkg -l foobarbaz
...
ii  foobarbaz         1.0               no description given

Notice how when installing, dpkg automatically downcased the name.

That's pretty shitty, but I'm pretty sure the source of it is some (as usual) bullshit Debian policy.

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Oh. Got it. Yeah, that's weird. Good to be noisy, then :)

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fpm 0.2.31 released that includes the restriction on .deb package names.

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