Cannot include a package with a plus character in its name

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Subject: Cannot include a package with a plus character in its name
From: Phil Calvert <pcalvert@rocketmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:43:35 -0800 (PST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 636000.3718.qm@web32002.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello,

I tried to use the live-build web-frontend at http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build to build a Lenny/KDE image with some additional packages, one of them being dvd+rw-tools. Unfortunately, it did not work because the package name was truncated at the plus character. In other words, "dvd+rw-tools" became just "dvd".

I did a little research on this and it seems that others have reported similar behaviour. See: http://lists.debian.org/deity/2010/09/msg00015.html Is there a simple workaround for this problem?

Phil

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