Bug#1137319: lintian: skipping non-latin arguments

[Nicholas Guriev]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.135.0
Severity: minor

Dear Lintian Maintainers,

Lintian skips and does not check source packages if arguments contain non-latin
letters in filenames. And Lintian hangs indefinitely if it prints no other tags
(from the remaining arguments). The bug only appears with .dsc files, .deb
packages seem unaffected.

Note that file paths in Linux are treated as arbitrary byte sequences and
should not be encoded to UTF-8 nor decoded.


$ lintian -L '>=classification' тест/hello_2.12.3-1.dsc
Skipping ÑеÑÑ/hello_2.12.3-1.dsc: ÃÂÃ


The bug can be worked around if one changes the current working directory
before launching Lintian.

$ ( cd тест && lintian -L '>=classification' hello_2.12.3-1.dsc )

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