Bloom should not allow me to release packages with a bad name.

[ahendrix]

I recently released pr2_etherCAT into Hydro. Unfortunately, ros-hydro-pr2-etherCAT is not a valid debian package name (capital letters don't appear to be allowed), so the source deb build has been failing. I think bloom should not allow this to happen.

Possible fixes:

1. Translate package names to all lowercase before releasing.
2. Don't allow the release of packages with invalid names.

I'm personally in favor of 1 since it doesn't require me to rename my package, but I suspect it entails a fair amount of modification to the ROS tools to support it.

[wjwwood]

Rather than lower case the name, I think bloom will just refuse to release the repository. I will open a ticket to get this check into catkin_prepare_release also.

The reasons for not automatically lower casing the package name:

• It violates the ROS naming guidelines
• It violates the Debian naming guidelines
• See: Silent failure to create tags with differing case only #76

I will leave this ticket open until I have a check for this in bloom.