Bug#901952: fixing pristine-tar w.r.t. changed tar escaping

[Paul Gevers]

Hi all,

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 03:13:28 +0200 "Bernhard R. Link" <brl...@debian.org> wrote:

* Bernhard R. Link <brl...@debian.org> [190330 07:58]:
> I'm looking into #901952 (pristine-tar failing to checkout out old files
> with non-printable unicode characters) and think that might be solved
> with the attached patches, by calling tar with --null and giving it
> a copy of the manifest file that is unescaped and NUL-terminated.

> generated with 1.46, as that the format incompatibly without
> changing the version of the delta (though perhaps that can be
> mitigated by an additional variant at checkout time).



Attached version with some small fixes, more tests convering those
changes (and compatibility with previous versions), and an additional
variant run on checkout time to also handle files commited with 1.46.

        Bernhard R. Link
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> > What I haven't looked into yet is whether it will break files > > What are your opinions on that? Is this worth trying to get into buster?

Paul

I'm pretty sure that the fix for bug #933031 (in pristine-tar) works around the issue. Shall we close this bug as won't fix?

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