No, certainly not. The details are embarrassing for a public bug so I was being cagey. :)
I was parsing Source: lines incorrectly. The policy manual says that version numbers on a Source line are allowed in .changes and .deb controls, but not .dsc. This makes sense; for .debs in particular they are necessary for binary NMUs. But I misread that, as if the Source: line was allowed only for .changes files. And so when I encountered a .deb that had a Source: line with a version in it, I created a pool directory with the "wrong" name. So if there was: Package: foo Version: 1.9+1 Source: foo (1.9) I would create "pool/main/f/foo (1.9)/foo_1.9+1_amd64.deb" and create a Filename: argument to match. The problem with apt-get handling of this was actually a happy accident, because it highlighted this case so I could fix it! Thomas On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Daniel Hartwig <mand...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6 December 2012 14:06, Thomas Bushnell BSG > <1086...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > > And in my case, there was an independent > > bug *producing* the directories with spaces in them which I did not > > intend. > > Ah, I had thought you were stuck with those directories! > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Goobuntu > Team, which is subscribed to the bug report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1086997 > > Title: > apt-get fails if a package has a space in its Filename > > Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > If a package has a space in its Filename: entry in the Packages file, > you get errors on HTTP resolution. > > Normal Debian repos don't have a case like that, but the Packages file > should work even if packages are not stored in the pool in the most > usual way. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1086997/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1086997 Title: apt-get fails if a package has a space in its Filename To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1086997/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
