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[Neil Shepperd <nshepperd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone

I have some changes I would like someone to review or discuss if anyone
has time:
https://code.launchpad.net/~nshepperd/apt-zeroconf/parse-hacking/+merge/10888

I was hoping this merge proposal would automatically forward to the
list, but it didn't. Anyway basically I rewrote the list parser to be
hopefully simpler. Also I found that the way url quote/unquoting was
working stopped aptzeroconf from being able to download deb files with
an epoch from local servers. So I just got rid of that as well.

This is something I want to think about a bit more: maybe we should
really separate the machine-readable package list from the
human-readable list you see in the web browser. It's nice to be able to
do tricks like xsl transforms to turn the xml list into an xhtml web
page, but I'm concerned that this might complicate the program more than
it needs to be. We don't really *need* to do any munging on plain
package names, and the less we do, the less chance of messing something
up.

Thoughts?

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