Re: epoch fix?
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:26:13AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 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.
Could you give a list of filesystems and/or operating systems on which
the percent sign is not allowed, or causes problems, in filenames?
FAT, for example, is expected to allow % in filenames
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename#Directory_table).
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