def normalize_name(name):
return re.sub('<STR_LIT>', '<STR_LIT>', name.lower())<EOL>
Normalize a repository name.

:param name: The name of a repository (a string).
:returns: The normalized repository name (a string).

This makes sure that minor variations in character case and/or punctuation
don't disrupt the name matching in :func:`find_configured_repository()`.