Bug#796067: apt: Tabs in sources.list are not accepted

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tag -1 pending

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:52:59AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.1~exp9
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> sources.list:
> deb<tab>http://httpredir.debian.org/debian<tab>unstable main contrib
> 
> # apt-get update
> E: Type 'deb    http://httpredir.debian.org/debian      unstable' is
> not known on line 33 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> 
> Replacing the tabs with one blank works ok.
> 
> Elimar
> 

Hi Elimar,

thanks for your bug report. I could reproduce it and fixed it in
git, see
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?h=debian/experimental&id=defe3231c7bafc4d789219a3250be9ccfbc51914
for more details. It will be part of the next upload of the 1.1 code.

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