SBackup fails if target path contains #

Binary package hint: sbackup

When the target directory contains # (number sign), sbackupd fails with message
"E: Target directory is not writable - please test in simple-config-gnome!"
even though the access rights are set correctly (with no # backup works just fine).

The problem is, according to my quick research, calling the Python function gnomevfs.make_directory ( http://www.pygtk.org/pygnomevfs/gnomevfs-functions.html#function-gnomevfs--make_directory ). This function accepts the target *URI* as the first parameter, but sbackupd.py passes the original name to it, the one containing #. According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI everything after # in an URI is considered the "fragment".

The solution would probably be to URI-encode the target path first.

Using
Ubuntu 8.10
sbackup version 0.10.5ubuntu2