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

[Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian@joonet.de>]

Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> 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. Every time
copying package files from apt cache which *have* the epoch included I
remove this short part in the file names (e.g. 4%3a) because it is bad to
read and have no benefit.

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Have a nice day.

Joachim (Germany)