Bug#693874: convmv can delete data on case-insensitive filesystems

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Bjoern Jacke (debianb...@j3e.de):

 As probably an update to 1.15 is against Debian policies: If you diff 1.14
 against 1.15 the fix for this bug is the hunk that starts with # the 
 following
 is to handle case-insensitive filesystems: ...

I would appreciate if you could provide a patch. I looked at what you
suggest but, not being a deep Perl wizard, I'm reluctant to simply add
the said hunk without confirmation that it doesn't need something
else. For instance, it seems to refer to the --upper and --lower
command line options, but arethese supported in 1.12?

With a patch, I could easily consider asking for a freeze exception
for this bug.



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Bug#693874: convmv can delete data on case-insensitive filesystems

[Bjoern Jacke]

Package: convmv
Version: 1.12
Owner: bubu...@debian.org

there is a posible data loss bug in the convmv versions = 1.14 which are in
Debian distris.

from the changelog:

- fix a bug where on case-insensitive filesystems --upper and --lower did not
  work because we thought the new file would already exist (stat foo and stat
  FOO are the same, yeah. The obvious workaround to use --replace would
  delete the files on case-insensitive filesystems instead, which was even
  worse. Case conversion should be working well now, I tested it on Darwin and
  on case-insensitive XFS. The latter one is a bit buggy by the way, see
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39512. convmv works around that
  bug, too.

The initial bug report comes from https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29563

As probably an update to 1.15 is against Debian policies: If you diff 1.14
against 1.15 the fix for this bug is the hunk that starts with # the following
is to handle case-insensitive filesystems: ...


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