[Bug 877668] Re: Option to disable encoding of special characters

[David Kalnischkies]

Any rational for this request beside to have another option?

As a rational to set it as invalid as long as no good reason exist:
* It can never be the default
* adds mostly untested/unused codepaths
* everything working with these files needs to check both namestyles, breaking existing software,
  so it is even less like that this option will ever be used by a real user
* It has no value for the user, beside increasing complexity to share these files with older releases and with everything not supporting : in filenames

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Option to disable encoding of special characters

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This ticket is related to ticket #877435. I think there should be an
  option that controls if the encoding of characters like : is activated
  or not. Or maybe the option can contain a string which contains all
  characters that are encoded.

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