This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.9.9.1~ubuntu1
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apt (0.9.9.1~ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low
* merged from the debian/sid branch:
- debian/gbp.conf: change build branch to ubuntu/master
- use ubuntu keyring and ubuntu archive keyring in apt-key
- run
** Branch linked: lp:~mvo/apt/source-hashes
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apt-get fails if a package has a space in its Filename
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Thanks for the bugreport and the patch.
Given the trivial nature of the patch and that indeed http is used
outside of a strict packages context sometimes (e.g. changelogs and in
the future potentially more) I applied it to the bzr tree and it will
be part of the next upload.
** Changed in: apt
What I meant by saying that appendix D wasn't relevant was only that it
doesn't say anything particularly helpful about the syntax of a
Filename: field.
I agree that any attempt to modify 5.1 is pointless, and it's not any
trouble in my particular case to simply conform more closely to the
On 6 December 2012 14:06, Thomas Bushnell BSG
1086...@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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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
