Comment 2 for bug 628376

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:34:19 -0000, Robert Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
> Is apt happy with the more regularly known uris? You may be strictly
> right, but if you check the wiki on file uris you'll see its not what
> browsers etc expect.

Yes, apt is happy with either form.

chromium rewrites file:/something for me to be the more usual file:///.

The reason I reported this bug is that I want to take uris reported by
python-apt and fetch them using bzrlib (mainly because apt writes
allsorts of output if I use it directly), to do that I currently have to
rewrite the (apparently valid) uris myself in between.

Thanks,

James