On 29/10/11 02:23, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Hi all,we found some issues with libarchive and some file names when using the C locale. For example try $ bsdtar tf ca-certificates-20111025-1-any.pkg.tar.xz (from testing) The result will be "bsdtar: Pathname in pax header can't be converted to current locale." Fun fact: The package was created using the C locale. Due to this pacman will refuse to install this package when using the C locale which is used e.g. by our build tools.
Has anyone tested whether the package is created correctly using the previous version of libarchive? The previous ca-certificates package has non-ASCII filenames in it too and worked fine, so I would suspect this is an issue with the current libarchive.
Ignoring the question if we should avoid packaging such file names we might have a bigger problem here: our C locale does not work well with unicode names. To solve such issues our friends at Debian introduced a new C.UTF-8 locale. This might be a better alternative than forcing e.g. en_US.UTF-8 as default locale which might have other consequences; different sorting behavior for example. Some information can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609306 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522776
I usually refuse to add extra locales to glibc beyond that included upstream. Maintaining extra locales is a massive burden and I do not want to open the door for requests to add (e.g.) all the locales Debian does...
Allan
