]] Goswin von Brederlow > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:53:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2013-05-10 02:01:15 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > Seems nobody is picking-up on the topic, so I'll try > > > once more, because I'm convince there's something > > > we could do here. How about replacing epoch separator > > > char : by @ in the filenames for example? > > > > Why not keep the usual : escaping as in URLs? It may be less readable > > (for the few people who need to read it), but it may be better if > > other characters need to be introduced and escaped in the future. > > Because that needs to be escaped (again) when downloading the file via > e.g. http. And if you need to escape things then we might as well use > ":" directly and remain readable.
«:» doesn't need to be escaped within a path segment in a URL. I believe the only reason why apt escapes them on disk is to avoid problems if .deb files are copied to file systems where : is problematic, such as VFAT and HFS. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- 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/87vc6n87gx....@qurzaw.varnish-software.com
