packages case sensitivity

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 06:05:14PM +0200, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> 
> > seems github packages are case insensitive, perhaps we should limit 
> > similarily in pld to disallow creating packages that differ just 
> > character case?
> 
> Our policy always was to use tarball name as the package name,
> regardless of case.

Not always – depends on a package type. E.g. for python modules
the name used to import the module/package in python should always be
used, no matter how the source package is named. This way 'ImportError'
exceptions can be easily handled.

Greets,
        Jacek