Bug#284092: odd characters in .deb filename

[Erik Dykema]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:a2.8.6
Severity: wishlist
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When I ran apt-get upgrade today, I noticed that the metacity deb file (as well 
as the libmetacity0 deb) has a ":" (colon) character in the filename.  This 
shows up properly in the first part of the upgrade:

<pre>
Get:4 http://mirror..... testing/main libmetacity0 1:2.8.6-1 [159kB]
Get:5 http://mirror..... testing/main metacity 1:2.8.6-1 [1798kB]
</pre>

but not in the second part, it shows up as '%3a'

<pre>
Preparing to replace libmetacity0 1:2.8.1-4 (using 
.../libmetacity0_1%3a2.8.6-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libmetacity0 ...
Preparing to replace metacity 1:2.8.1-4 (using 
.../metacity_1%3a2.8.6-1_i386.deb) ...
</pre>

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a wishlist thing, but would it be nice to have 
the filename not include a ':', so that it displays properly?  I would think 
that this might be a 'bug/wish' for apt-get, but most other packages don't seem 
to have a ':' in their names.  Please feel free to ignore or agree as appropriate :)


thanks,
Erik Dykema