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

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

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
typical way of construction repos.

You should feel free to deal with this issue and related ones as you see
fit. Obviously apt-get is only particularly well tested on Filename:
values that are "pool/f/foo/foo..." in form, for the obvious reason:
that's what everyone writes. And in my case, there was an independent
bug *producing* the directories with spaces in them which I did not
intend. So solving this bug is not necessary to addressing any
operational difficulty I'm encountering; I reported it only because it
seemed a risk for other cases more important than spaces in filenames.

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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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