[Bug 617328] Re: space is a bad choice for seperator for Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins

[Petar Maric]

Any chance of backporting this fix to 10.04?

Thanks

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Title:
  space is a bad choice for seperator for Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-
  Origins

Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: unattended-upgrades

  http://bugs.debian.org/536754

  I know ubuntu is not debian but for unattended-upgrades it appears
  that ubuntu is upstream.

  Some well known and well used repos have spaces in either of both of their "origin" and "archive"  
  debian-multimedisa has the string "Unofficial Multimedia Packages"
  backports.org also has a space in it's origin.

  Perhaps the simplest solution is to change to using a ":" as the separator. The origin strings come from Releases files which by inspection have the format:
   <key>: <value>
  And so presumably ":" cannot be in the <value>.

  Would you accept patches to do this?

  I guess you will want a patch that falls back to using a space
  separator (for backwards compatibility) if there is no ":" seperator.

  
  I am about to send a similar bug update to the debian bug #536754, I will then work on a backwards compatible debian patch then a backwards compatible ubuntu patch.

  Please comment if you think this is a bad plan?

  Alex Owen

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