bad package naming, bad package section

Bug #817345 reported by upkpk
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udev-notify
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Bug Description

Hello,
the .deb package provided at udev-notify.learnfree.eu doesn't respect two conventions that will prevent it to be integrated in a regular APT repository:

in DEBIAN/control: The 'Section:' field should be main, contrib or non-free (probably main in this case). APT mirrors have no "USU packages" section, and the package will be filtered out of the Packages.gz list by apt-ftparchive.

The package's filename doesn't respect the standard package naming convention: 'name_version_arch'. Use dpkg-name $package to rename it correctly.

These are trivial fixes. They really should be corrected if you intend to provide them in a standard repository. I have a corrected deb package here: Hello,
the .deb package provided at udev-notify.learnfree.eu doesn't respect two conventions that will prevent it to be integrated in a regular APT repository:

in DEBIAN/control: The 'Section:' field should be main, contrib or non-free (probably main in this case). APT mirrors have no "USU packages" section, and the package will be filtered out of the Packages.gz list by apt-ftparchive.

The package's filename doesn't respect the standard package naming convention: 'name_version_arch'. Use dpkg-name $package to rename it correctly.

These are trivial fixes. They really should be corrected if you intend to provide them in a standard repository. I have a corrected deb package here: https://rxtx-linux.googlecode.com/svn/deb/pool/main/udev-notify_0.1.2_all.deb

Thanks for this great piece of software

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upkpk (upkpk)
Changed in udev-notify:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in udev-notify:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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