Patch To Spec? (was Re: Contradiction in bus names naming in D-Bus spec)

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Thu Feb 11 06:32:09 UTC 2021


On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 15:15:31 +0300, Igor Plastov wrote:

> 2nd naming rule says:
> **Bus names are composed of 1 or more elements separated by a period
> ('.') character. All elements must contain at least one character.*
> 
> 4th naming rules:
> **Bus names must contain at least one '.' (period) character (and
> thus at least two elements).  *

What is the preferred format for maintaining the spec?

--- a/dbus-specification.html   2020-06-03 08:06:27.000000000 +1200
+++ b/dbus-specification.html   2021-02-11 19:30:22.565985742 +1300
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@
           </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>Bus names that start with a colon (':')
                 character are unique connection names. Other bus names
                 are called <em class="firstterm">well-known bus names</em>.
-                </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Bus names are composed of 1 or more elements separated by
+                </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Bus names are composed of 2 or more elements separated by
                 a period ('.') character. All elements must contain at least
                 one character.
                 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Each element must only contain the ASCII characters


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