Bug#312605: [SPAM?]: Bug#312605 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#312605: percent sign in debian package names)

Hi Adam, > Of course not. Don't escape the filename when placing it into Packages.gz. > Use the unescaped form. As a low bandwidth user I was ending up "apt-get update"ing one host at a high bandwidth place and creating a mirror from the resulting apt-archive for further local distribution. I

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Bug#312605: percent sign in debian package names

Package: apt Package: general package management Version: up to 0.5.28.5 Hi there, I tried to put a collection of debian packages on a tomcat webserver along with a Packages.gz for easy retrieval via apt-get. However the retrieval does not work whenever a percent sign is part of the filename (a