Bug#798003: freeimage: please change FreeImage.h encoding

[Christophe Trophime]

Christophe TROPHIME 
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ghislain Vaillant" <ghisvail at gmail.com>
> To: 798003 at bugs.debian.org
> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 3:07:42 PM
> Subject: Bug#798003: freeimage: please change FreeImage.h encoding
> 
> Hi Christophe,
> 
>  > could you please change the encoding on installed FreeImage.h header?
>  > The actual encoding is no longer ASCII since you introduced a second
>  > author "hervé".
>  > This change may cause some packages to FTBS.
> 
> You meant *upstream* introduced a second author, not us?
> 
> I saw that Fedora is solving the inconsistent encoding by converting all
> source files to UTF-8 [1]. Would that solve your problem?
> 
> [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/freeimage/
> 
>  > Trying to install salome from source FTBS because of this change.
>  > The installer tries to recover FreeImage version by using grep >
> VERSION in FreeImage.h
> 
>  > The non ASCII encoding somehow breaks this as the grep command no
>  > longer returns the lines including "VERSION". Instead the grep
>  > command return a message "Binary .... matches".
> 
>  > Changing "hervé" to herve fix the problem.
> 
> Sounds that the version parsing of `salome` is a bit fragile too.

In fact it's just made with a simple grep ....

> 
> Ghis
> 
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