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. bye, //mirabilos