[Bug 1086997] Re: apt-get fails if a package has a space in its Filename

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

No, certainly not. The details are embarrassing for a public bug so I was
being cagey. :)

I was parsing Source: lines incorrectly. The policy manual says that
version numbers on a Source line are allowed in .changes and .deb controls,
but not .dsc. This makes sense; for .debs in particular they are necessary
for binary NMUs.

But I misread that, as if the Source: line was allowed only for .changes
files. And so when I encountered a .deb that had a Source: line with a
version in it, I created a pool directory with the "wrong" name. So if
there was:

Package: foo
Version: 1.9+1
Source: foo (1.9)

I would create "pool/main/f/foo (1.9)/foo_1.9+1_amd64.deb" and create a
Filename: argument to match.

The problem with apt-get handling of this was actually a happy accident,
because it highlighted this case so I could fix it!

Thomas

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 6 December 2012 14:06, Thomas Bushnell BSG
> <1086997 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> > And in my case, there was an independent
> > bug *producing* the directories with spaces in them which I did not
> > intend.
>
> Ah, I had thought you were stuck with those directories!
>
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> Title:
>   apt-get fails if a package has a space in its Filename
>
> Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   If a package has a space in its Filename: entry in the Packages file,
>   you get errors on HTTP resolution.
>
>   Normal Debian repos don't have a case like that, but the Packages file
>   should work even if packages are not stored in the pool in the most
>   usual way.
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Title:
  apt-get fails if a package has a space in its Filename

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If a package has a space in its Filename: entry in the Packages file,
  you get errors on HTTP resolution.

  Normal Debian repos don't have a case like that, but the Packages file
  should work even if packages are not stored in the pool in the most
  usual way.

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