On December 17, 2007, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi, > > Is the backup software in Debian or not? The console-tools is correct, > and in principle the other software is in > error in failing to handle a valid filename as anything other than a > null-terminated string of bytes (exluding '/') .
Nope. The backup software is external to debian. > What problems do you see? 12/16/07 21:44:30 ANS1228E Sending of object '/usr/share/doc/console-tools/examples/♪♬' failed 12/16/07 21:44:30 ANS4042E Object name '/usr/share/doc/console-tools/examples/♪♬' contains one or more unrecognised characters and is not valid. Unfortunately, I filed the bug report before reading the file /usr/share/doc/console-tools/examples/README.strange-name After wich I would not have filed the bug ... This is a problem with the backup software -- it is having a hard time backing up utf-8 encoded names. Please close this bug report with my apologies. Jean > On 17 Dec 2007, at 14:57, Jean Robertson wrote: > > Package: console-tools > > Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-65 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: l10n > > > > > > A file under /usr/share/doc/console-tools/examples > > dated 1999-04-08 and having a size of 295 chars. appears as two > > musical > > notes when viewed with a UTF-8 enabled konsole. > > > > This files does not backup properly with older backup software. > > > > Please change the name to something more mundane. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: 4.0 > > APT prefers stable > > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 > > Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.utf8) > > > > Versions of packages console-tools depends on: > > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration > > management sy > > ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared > > libraries > > ii libconsole 1:0.2.3dbs-65 Shared libraries for > > Linux console > > ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 > > init scrip > > > > Versions of packages console-tools recommends: > > ii console-common 0.7.69 Basic infrastructure > > for text cons > > ii console-data 2:1.01-7 Keymaps, fonts, charset > > maps, fall > > > > -- no debconf information > > Regards, > Alastair -- Jean Robertson, McGill University (514) 398-8117
