** Tags added: precise trusty ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632392 Title: Unicode spaces in sources.list files are not interpreted as spaces Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I was troubleshooting an issue where apt was unable to update after copying the sources.list from another machine. It turns out the user was copy/pasting from an IM client that converted some whitespace to unicode non-breaking spaces. To reproduce: echo deb $'\302'$'\240'http://site.example.com/debian distribution component | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bugged.list 12.04 and 14.04 results in immediate failure to update: $ sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ http could not be found. APT in 16.04 seems to handle this a bit more sanely: $ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 [removed] Reading package lists... Done E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ http could not be found. E: Failed to fetch http://site.example.com/debian/dists/distribution/InRelease E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1632392/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
