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

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 6 December 2012 13:27, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Regardless of how debian-policy defines valid filenames /in control
> files/, the APT Acquire system and HTTP method can be used outside the
> context of debian control files, and should still issue
> correctly-formed HTTP requests and save the files properly.

Acquire system should be ok.  Attaching trivial patch for
methods/http.cc.  Rationale: space (#x20) is a delimiter in the
context of a HTTP Request-Line [1] and therefore must be
percent-encoded in the Request-URI.

[1] <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5.1>


** Attachment added: "percent-encode-space.diff"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1086997/+attachment/3452781/+files/percent-encode-space.diff

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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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