Package: apt Version: 0.5.14 Severity: normal it seems that apt 0.5.14 no longer url-escapes '~' characters in urls.
apt 0.5.8 (at least) correctly converts it to '%7e' -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux dolly 2.4.20-686 #1 Mon Jan 13 22:22:30 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information

