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Bug#284092: marked as done (odd characters in .deb filename)

Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:25:00 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#284092: odd characters in .deb filename
has caused the Debian Bug report #284092,
regarding odd characters in .deb filename
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Package: metacity
Version: 1:a2.8.6
Severity: wishlist
tar
When I ran apt-get upgrade today, I noticed that the metacity deb file (as well as the libmetacity0 deb) has a ":" (colon) character in the filename. This shows up properly in the first part of the upgrade: 

<pre>
Get:4 http://mirror..... testing/main libmetacity0 1:2.8.6-1 [159kB]
Get:5 http://mirror..... testing/main metacity 1:2.8.6-1 [1798kB]
</pre>

but not in the second part, it shows up as '%3a'

<pre>
Preparing to replace libmetacity0 1:2.8.1-4 (using .../libmetacity0_1%3a2.8.6-1_i386.deb) ... 
Unpacking replacement libmetacity0 ...
Preparing to replace metacity 1:2.8.1-4 (using .../metacity_1%3a2.8.6-1_i386.deb) ... 
</pre>
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a wishlist thing, but would it be nice to have the filename not include a ':', so that it displays properly? I would think that this might be a 'bug/wish' for apt-get, but most other packages don't seem to have a ':' in their names. Please feel free to ignore or agree as appropriate :) 


thanks,
Erik Dykema

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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:00:26AM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote:
> Package: metacity
> Version: 1:a2.8.6
> Severity: wishlist
> tar
> 
> When I ran apt-get upgrade today, I noticed that the metacity deb file (as
> well as the libmetacity0 deb) has a ":" (colon) character in the filename.
> This shows up properly in the first part of the upgrade:
> 
> <pre>
> Get:4 http://mirror..... testing/main libmetacity0 1:2.8.6-1 [159kB]
> Get:5 http://mirror..... testing/main metacity 1:2.8.6-1 [1798kB]
> </pre>

This is displayed by APT

> 
> but not in the second part, it shows up as '%3a'
> 
> <pre>
> Preparing to replace libmetacity0 1:2.8.1-4 (using
> .../libmetacity0_1%3a2.8.6-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libmetacity0 ...
> Preparing to replace metacity 1:2.8.1-4 (using
> .../metacity_1%3a2.8.6-1_i386.deb) ...
> </pre>
> 

This is displayed by dpkg and different because APT escapes the colon
because some file systems do not support colons.

Therefore, this is not a bug, and I am closing it.

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