Investigate having URI replacement use the name of the transport binary on disk rather than a hardcoded ar+https value (in method.go#169.
That is, if the file /usr/lib/apt/methods/ar+https is renamed to /usr/lib/apt/methods/myname, entries in sources.list(5) could use the myname:// scheme. This could possibly resolve issues where some tools don't handle the + character in the scheme properly.
Investigate having URI replacement use the name of the transport binary on disk rather than a hardcoded
ar+https
value (in method.go#169.That is, if the file
/usr/lib/apt/methods/ar+https
is renamed to/usr/lib/apt/methods/myname
, entries insources.list(5)
could use themyname://
scheme. This could possibly resolve issues where some tools don't handle the+
character in the scheme properly.