Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2016-11-09 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:10:45 +0100 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen 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

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2012-02-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Tollef Fog Heen writes: >> 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. > > Which (known) tools would break because of this? It's not like anything > should

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2012-02-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ansgar Burchardt > 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. Which (known) tools would break because of this? It's not like anything should rely on pac

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2012-02-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
severity 645895 wishlist tag 645895 + wontfix thanks Tollef Fog Heen 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 : verb

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-23 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:42:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > (Cc-ed to debian-devel@l.d.o for their input in whether this would cause > problems anywhere else in the toolchain.) > > It's a bit confusing that the file names of .debs don't contai

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > На 19.10.2011 16:18, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh написа: > >Well, while % is xml/xhtml/html-friendly, it is *not* http-friendly, and > >will require double-encoding. > > So we have encoding ":" anyway. What about using ".." (horizontal > ":") - it looks m

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Ognyan Kulev
На 19.10.2011 16:18, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh написа: Well, while % is xml/xhtml/html-friendly, it is *not* http-friendly, and will require double-encoding. So we have encoding ":" anyway. What about using ".." (horizontal ":") - it looks much nicer than %-encoding. Regards, Ognyan Kulev

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2011-10-19 13:42, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > It's a bit confusing that the file names of .debs don't contain the > epoch. I think we should change that. I would welcome this. These epoch-related bugs/feature requests may be of interest too: #551323 (dpkg), #551326 (www.debian.org). -- Eugene

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh | On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > The first and obvious one is to avoid file name clashes in the | > archive. Another one is so the version number in the file name actually | > is the version number of the package which makes it less confusing when

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Neil Williams | On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:42:06 +0200 | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > Package: ftp.debian.org | > Severity: normal | > | > (Cc-ed to debian-devel@l.d.o for their input in whether this would cause | > problems anywhere else in the toolchain.) | > | > It's a bit confusing that th

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:42:06 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > (Cc-ed to debian-devel@l.d.o for their input in whether this would cause > problems anywhere else in the toolchain.) > > It's a bit confusing that the file names of .debs don't contain the

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tollef Fog Heen | I would suggest %-encoding it, so foo-1:1 becomes foo_1%251_all.deb. s/%25/%3a/ -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal (Cc-ed to debian-devel@l.d.o for their input in whether this would cause problems anywhere else in the toolchain.) 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