Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > На 19.10.2011 16:18, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh написа: > >Well, while % is xml/xhtml/html-friendly, it is *not* http-friendly, and > >will require double-encoding. > > So we have encoding ":" anyway. What about using ".." (horizontal > ":") - it looks m

Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Tollef Fog Heen wrote on 2011-10-19 15:49: > Yes, that's somewhat ugly. You already have to handle % encoded links > for anything pointing to packages with version numbers including ~ > though, so this won't make any difference there. And it would be more difficult for reading - at least for me

Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Ognyan Kulev
На 19.10.2011 16:18, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh написа: Well, while % is xml/xhtml/html-friendly, it is *not* http-friendly, and will require double-encoding. So we have encoding ":" anyway. What about using ".." (horizontal ":") - it looks much nicer than %-encoding. Regards, Ognyan Kulev

Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh | On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > The first and obvious one is to avoid file name clashes in the | > archive. Another one is so the version number in the file name actually | > is the version number of the package which makes it less confusing when

Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > The first and obvious one is to avoid file name clashes in the > archive. Another one is so the version number in the file name actually > is the version number of the package which makes it less confusing when > you need to download a package with an e

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Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Neil Williams | On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:42:06 +0200 | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > Package: ftp.debian.org | > Severity: normal | > | > (Cc-ed to debian-devel@l.d.o for their input in whether this would cause | > problems anywhere else in the toolchain.) | > | > It's a bit confusing that th

Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:42:06 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > (Cc-ed to debian-devel@l.d.o for their input in whether this would cause > problems anywhere else in the toolchain.) > > It's a bit confusing that the file names of .debs don't contain the

Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tollef Fog Heen | I would suggest %-encoding it, so foo-1:1 becomes foo_1%251_all.deb. s/%25/%3a/ -- 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

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal (Cc-ed to debian-devel@l.d.o for their input in whether this would cause problems anywhere else in the toolchain.) It's a bit confusing that the file names of .debs don't contain the epoch. I think we should change that. I would suggest %-encoding it, so