I'm seeing this using a Debian/Sarge (or in fact backports) apt-proxy as the target for packages on me Debian/etch (testing) system for openoffice.org.
With both apt-proxy 1.9.29 (sarge) and apt-proxy_1.9.35~bpo.1_all.deb
(sarge-backports) this is a problem. At some stage in the request the ~
(tilde) gets translated to %7e. This would be fine, except at least
ftp.uk.debian.org and ftp.fi.debian.org do not understand such
HTML-escaped characters and thus don't recognise:
openoffice.org_2.0.4%7erc3-1_i386.deb
as being the same as:
openoffice.org_2.0.4~rc3-1_i386.deb
So, is there any way to tell the HTTP method to NOT do such translation?
alternatively all the debian mirrors need to be kicked so as to accept
%7e as ~, and possibly other such translations.
Whoever came up with the "~" idea without encountering this problem in
testing needs kicking :P.
-Ath
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