Bug#860023: libdebian-source-perl: Rejects valid field names based on letter case

[Ben Finney]

On 12-Apr-2017, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Maybe someone has an idea how we can simulate something like
> case-insensitive method names?

For resolving this bug, I think the method names don't need to change
and don't need to be case-insensitive.

The only behaviour needing resolution for this bug report is that
valid field names from the control file are rejected.

Policy does not mandate the way a Perl library makes accessors on its
objects, for example. It merely mandates that the names from the
control files must be interpreted case-insensitive.

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:37:28 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > For example, the names “vcs-git”, “Vcs-Git”, “VCS-Git”, “vcS-gIt”
> > should all be interpreted as the same field name by
> > ‘libdebian-source-perl’.

So, with the above example, if each those field names were accepted,
and they all map to the Perl object accessor ‘Vcs_Git’, and other Perl
code still needed to spell the *accessor* name that way, that would
IMO be compliant with Policy and would resolve this bug report.

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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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