Hi, On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Colin Watson wrote: > A fix for this is to insert: > > binmode($fh, ":encoding(UTF-8)"); > > ... just before the call to $self->parse in > Dpkg::Interface::Storable::load(); this causes Perl to assume character > semantics on the data read from that file, which causes sprintf %.65s to > yield 65 characters rather than 65 bytes. However, this will require > every file read through that interface to be valid UTF-8, and I don't > know whether that is appropriate, so I leave this to your judgement.
It's definitely not the right place for such a fix IMO. It should be in Dpkg::Control ideally... but it's an high impact change that needs careful preparation. For now I have pushed a non-invasive fix for squeeze that corrects dpkg-genchanges only. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
