On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:49 PM, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote:
> Ok, so what are we doing now? > > While I would like dhelp to handle this situation a bit more > gracefully, I suggest to downgrade the severity of the bug since it > shouldn't affect anyone running packages contained in recent and > upcoming Debian releases, and keeping it out of jessie for these > cornercases seems a bit to strong for me. > > (Of course a fix would be best :)) > In terms of fixing dhelp, we could in theory catch the UTF-8 error, log a warning somehow, and continue on to the next package description. One missing package from the documentation index isn't the end of the world (and in my experience, dhelp doesn't index all my HTML documentation anyway.) However, the code in question is in ruby-debian, which is a separate library used by other packages. Might not be correct behavior for other users of the library?
