Bug#835162: How to link to an external URL with # (hash) sign?

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Package: texlive-latex-base
Version: 2016.20160805-1
Tags: upstream

Before this bug gets lost in infinity, here is a quick report.

There is an issue in between doxygen generated LaTeX code and hyperref
package (as shipped in Debian at least), where one cannot use a # sign
in a URL even if the documentation states it is supposed to work.

Based solely on the documention (and the original doxygen bug), I
believe the bug is indeed in texlive-latex-base, see for more ref:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769977

Let me copy/paste some keywords for reference:

[...]
    ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \Hy@tempa.
    <to be read again>
                       p
    l.153 ...ageref{classgdcm_1_1ImageRegionReader}}{}

    ?
[...]