Bug#111914: apt: Apparently harmless apt.conf causes http method to break.

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:18:10PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> was heard to say:
> >   After spending hours trying to debug aptitude, I have concluded that my
> > woes stem from a problem with apt itself.
> 
> There is likely something wrong with the encoding used to pass the
> configuration space into the http method, there are some debug options
> that will show that up. un-escaped special character or something.
> 
> You might try putting your config in a seperate Configuration object as a
> work around. 

  Ok, I'll look into that (tomorrow, my brain is fried for the day :-) ).

  Do you expect to have this fixed soon, or should I assume this
workaround will go into woody?

    Thanks,
  Daniel

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