On 3/6/19 5:32 pm, Andrew Gregory wrote: > pkgname and pkgver are used as directory names within database files. > libarchive does not provide a reliable locale-independent method for > reading archive file names, causing errors when archive paths include > non-ascii characters. > > This is a first step toward dealing with FS#49342, by hopefully reducing > the number of packages with non-ascii data in the wild before updating > libalpm to reject them outright. > > See https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/Filenames > and https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/587 > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <[email protected]>
This is a sad limitation of libarchive. Patch is fine as we need to be robust to it. A
