Bug#507896: epm: does not allows non-alphanum characters in product names

[Jeff Licquia]

Hi!  Sorry for taking so long to reply.

I wasn't able to find out more information about the patch.  Has this 
patch been introduced upstream?  What was the response?  What problem is 
it trying to solve?





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Bug#507896: epm: does not allows non-alphanum characters in product names

[Al Nikolov]

Package: epm
Version: 4.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Please include this patch introduced by OOo people.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages epm depends on:
ii  libc6  2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc11:4.1.1-21GCC support library
ii  libjpeg62  6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6 4.1.1-21  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6   2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6   1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft22.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1   1:1.0.1-4.1   X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13compression library - runtime

epm recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
--- epm.c.orig  2008-12-05 19:41:49.0 +0300
+++ epm.c   2008-12-05 19:42:22.0 +0300
@@ -403,13 +403,6 @@
 usage();
   }
 
-  for (i = 0; prodname[i]; i ++)
-if (!isalnum(prodname[i]  255))
-{
-  puts(epm: Product names can only contain letters and numbers!);
-  usage();
-}
-
   if (!listname[0])
 snprintf(listname, sizeof(listname), %s.list, prodname);