new kernel naming convention?

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time Friday 18 June 2004 2:03 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 17:11, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > I think this is the first time i've seen a package version with a
> > release number that used non ascii characters. It will be fun to watch
> > how this sort of thing breaks existing tools
> > that have been explicitly or implicitly assuming ascii.
>
> yup that's the reason; it's a one off build to see how much of our
> infrastructure breaks with utf8 packages.....

well it breaks apt.  

Err http://people.redhat.com ~arjanv/2.6/kernel kernel-sourcecode 2.6.7-1.437ɤ
  404 Not Found
Err http://people.redhat.com ~arjanv/2.6/kernel kernel-doc 2.6.7-1.437ɤ
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.437ɤ.noarch.rpm  
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.437ɤ.noarch.rpm  
404 Not Found


it sees the character as a space  and cant find the package.

Dennis
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