On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:26:13AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <kurt <at> roeckx.be> writes: > > > > Not sure what a clean way of escaping the colon would be. > > > > apt already saves it with %3a in /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > %2a IIRC… but I consider this a bug personally and think apt > should construct the filenames for the cache the same way > the original official .deb building process does. > > Also, the percent sign is not usually handled well in filenames > on “other OSes” either.
Could you give a list of filesystems and/or operating systems on which the percent sign is not allowed, or causes problems, in filenames? FAT, for example, is expected to allow % in filenames (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename#Directory_table). -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130508092854.gg4...@mavolio.codethink.co.uk
