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#1415 Say something about the 64 character name limit
Opened by james. Modified

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The policy doesn't say anything about the number of characters in the name, but we have limits for example bugzilla has a 64 character limit:

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/12167

Should probably put something somewhere in:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Naming/

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Might be a good idea, though with the upcoming switch to a new forge / bug tracker, I'm not sure it's that important (unless the new system has a length limit for project names too).

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- Issue assigned to salimma

PR 1439 (https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1439) brought this up again.

FWIW I had a look at current packages:

repoquery -a --qf '%{name}' | awk '{print length($1)}' | sort -n | uniq -c | \
perl -lne '/^\s*(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s*$/ && print "$2: $1: " . "*" x ((100 * $1) / 5500)'

...and the name lengths drop off a lot around 48 characters, and are in the low single digits by 58.
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