Can't they just encode the plus character as a space in their S3 instances? Then a file like package_1.0+really0.9_all.deb would be stored as "package_1.0 really0.9_all.deb" and the URI decoding done by S3 is circumvented server-side, instead of requiring hacks on the client side.
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