Dear Christian, Thanks for the return. Indeed this is an upstream bug. I have tried to file with them, but it has ot been easy. I'll keep you posted if things change.
Paulo Ney On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:50 AM Christian Ehrhardt < 1952...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Hi, > I can confirm your report and have tested it in Focal (1:4.15.2-5) and > Jammy (1:4.15.2-5build1) which both behave that way. > > I want to thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping > to make Ubuntu better. I appreciate the quality of this bug report and > I'm sure it'll be helpful to others experiencing the same issue. > > But this sounds like an upstream bug to me. Even the latest behaves that > way and I didn#t see Ubuntu/Debian delta that seems related. > > You might consider verifying this by building directly from the latest > upstream source? If this can be confirmed as an upstream bug, the best > route to getting it fixed in Ubuntu in this case would be to file an > upstream bug if you're able to do that. > Seems the project wants mails ( > https://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/manual/sharutils.html#shar-Bugs) > so the result are likely mailing list entries. > > Otherwise, I'm not sure what we can do directly in Ubuntu to fix the > problem. > > If you do end up filing an upstream bug, please link to it from here. > Thanks in advance! > > > BTW - and by that I'm not 100% sure how valid the bug is - if I omit the > -T (forcing text) everything works just fine. > > ** Changed in: sharutils (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Confirmed > > ** Changed in: sharutils (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => Low > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1952491 > > Title: > shar fails on some UTF-8 text files > > Status in sharutils package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > When I do "shar -T test.tex > file.shar" on the one-liner file, > encoded in UTF-8: > > \chapter{Séries} > > everything works fine, and when executing sh file.shar the file is > extracted fine and it is the same as before. > > Adding one line to it and turning the file into: > > \chapter{Séries} > Séries de potências são essenciais no estudo das funções. > > the same command produces a shar file that contains the text. But when > we execute sh (or unshar, or change it into an executable file and > execute it) it fails the MD5 check upon extraction: > > $ sh file.shar > x - created lock directory _sh06764. > x - extracting test.tex (text) > test.tex: MD5 check failed > x - removed lock directory _sh06764. > and it produces a file that is recognized as ISO-8859 text and it has > all accents messed up, as in: > > \chapter{Séries} > S©ries de potências são essenciais no estudo das funções. > > I know the manual says that you may have problems e-mailing files > produced with the -T flag, but this goes beyond mailing -- the file > itself is corrupted. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sharutils/+bug/1952491/+subscriptions > > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1952491 Title: shar fails on some UTF-8 text files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sharutils/+bug/1952491/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
