severity 645895 wishlist tag 645895 + wontfix thanks Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@debian.org> writes: > It's a bit confusing that the file names of .debs don't contain the > epoch. I think we should change that. > > I would suggest %-encoding it, so foo-1:1 becomes foo_1%251_all.deb. > The reason to not include a : verbatim is it won't work correctly on all > file systems (: gets translated to / in the UI on Mac OS X and is > disallowed for at least FAT, I'm not sure about NTFS). Also, : is > traditionally how you reference remote files and devices with tar and > scp (and probably more tools), so avoiding : in files names seem > prudent.
This will break some existing tools and I don't see what we gain from this, esp. when we still need to encode the : in some other way. I'm therefore tagging this bug as wontfix. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
