Hi, On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:10:45 +0100 Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@debian.org> writes: > > It's a bit confusing that the file names of .debs don't contain the > > epoch. I think we should change that. > > > > I would suggest %-encoding it, so foo-1:1 becomes foo_1%251_all.deb. > > The reason to not include a : verbatim is it won't work correctly on all > > file systems (: gets translated to / in the UI on Mac OS X and is > > disallowed for at least FAT, I'm not sure about NTFS). Also, : is > > traditionally how you reference remote files and devices with tar and > > scp (and probably more tools), so avoiding : in files names seem > > prudent. > > This will break some existing tools and I don't see what we gain from > this, esp. when we still need to encode the : in some other way. I'm > therefore tagging this bug as wontfix.
being the author of such a tool (debrebuild, see #774415), I'm using the
following code snippet to go from source package name, version tuple to .dsc
filename:
my $srcpkg = Dpkg::Source::Package->new();
$srcpkg->{fields}{'Source'} = $srcpkgname;
$srcpkg->{fields}{'Version'} = $version;
my $dsc_fname = $srcpkg->get_basename(1) . ".dsc";
Should the encoding ever get changed, using above snippet will (hopefully)
prevent any breakage in my tool because I rely on libdpkg-perl doing the job
for me. Other tools relying on this mapping should consider doing the same
instead of re-implementing this.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
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