Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.4 Severity: normal User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu maverick
dpkg-genchanges truncates the Description field to 65 bytes rather than 65 characters. When given a package with a Description field in UTF-8 and containing non-ASCII characters, this means that it can produce invalid UTF-8 due to truncating in the middle of a character. For a real-world example, see: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51958054/language-pack-kde-nb-base_10.04%2B20100714_source.changes A fix for this is to insert: binmode($fh, ":encoding(UTF-8)"); ... just before the call to $self->parse in Dpkg::Interface::Storable::load(); this causes Perl to assume character semantics on the data read from that file, which causes sprintf %.65s to yield 65 characters rather than 65 bytes. However, this will require every file read through that interface to be valid UTF-8, and I don't know whether that is appropriate, so I leave this to your judgement. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
