Re: epoch fix?
]] Goswin von Brederlow
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:53:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2013-05-10 02:01:15 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > > Seems nobody is picking-up on the topic, so I'll try
> > > once more, because I'm convince there's something
> > > we could do here. How about replacing epoch separator
> > > char : by @ in the filenames for example?
> >
> > Why not keep the usual : escaping as in URLs? It may be less readable
> > (for the few people who need to read it), but it may be better if
> > other characters need to be introduced and escaped in the future.
>
> Because that needs to be escaped (again) when downloading the file via
> e.g. http. And if you need to escape things then we might as well use
> ":" directly and remain readable.
«:» doesn't need to be escaped within a path segment in a URL. I
believe the only reason why apt escapes them on disk is to avoid
problems if .deb files are copied to file systems where : is
problematic, such as VFAT and HFS.
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Tollef Fog Heen
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