Bug#221754: apt: doesn't url escape '~'

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:01:37AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.14
> Severity: normal
> 
> it seems that apt 0.5.14 no longer url-escapes '~' characters in urls.
> 
> apt 0.5.8 (at least) correctly converts it to '%7e'

Nothing has changed in this area since 0.5.8.  Furthermore, '~' is not a
reserved character in URIs (see RFC 2396), and so apt should not escape it
unless it is being used in a context which requires this for other reasons.

Can you be more specific about what you are seeing and in what context?

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 - mdz