diff --git a/sat/plugins/plugin_merge_req_mercurial.py b/sat/plugins/plugin_merge_req_mercurial.py
index adc7a418..e92954e5 100755
--- a/sat/plugins/plugin_merge_req_mercurial.py
+++ b/sat/plugins/plugin_merge_req_mercurial.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class MercurialHandler(object):
         parsed_data = self.parse(data)
         try:
             parsed_name = parsed_data[0][u'commit_msg'].split(u'\n')[0]
-            parsed_name = re.sub(ur'[^\w -.]', u'', parsed_name, flags=re.UNICODE)[:40]
+            parsed_name = re.sub(ur'[^\w -.:]', u'', parsed_name, flags=re.UNICODE)[:40]
         except Exception:
             parsed_name = u''
         name = u'mr_{item_id}_{parsed_name}'.format(item_id=item_id,