Bug#814997: Reverting upstream commit 40ed879db fixes gnome-pkg-tools

[Santiago Ruano Rincón]

Hi,

El 17/02/16 a las 20:51, Andreas Henriksson escribió:
> Control: reassign -1 gnome-pkg-tools
> 
> Hello again.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 07:56:29PM +0100, santiagorr at riseup.net wrote:
> [...]
> > grep is less and less tolerant against invalid unicode characters.
> > Maybe are there invalid characters in the debian/* files where
> > uploaders.mk get the info to fill the Uploaders field? 
> [...]
> 
> You might actually be right here. (I was only thinking about the data
> used as an argument for grep - not the standard input data.)
> 
> $ iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii < /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team  | tail -n 2
> iconv: illegal input sequence at position 713
> Loic Minier <lool at dooz.org>,
> 

Try iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team

> And indeed, dropping Loïc and Sebastian Dröge from the list fixes the
> problem.
> 

Please, don't drop these folks just by their non-ascii compliant names!

Actually, my up-to-dated pbuilder is able to build totem, under my
default es_CO.UTF-8 locale. And I am able to grep their names:

% grep -F -e ï -e ö /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>,
Loïc Minier <lool at debian.org>,
Sebastian Dröge <slomo at debian.org>,

but under an ascii context:

% LANG=C grep -F -e ï -e ö /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team
Binary file /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team matches

comparing against grep-2.22:

% LANG=C grep -F -e ï -e ö /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>,
Loïc Minier <lool at debian.org>,
Sebastian Dröge <slomo at debian.org>,


Maybe this is actually an issue in grep, or an encoding not matching
between the input file and the builders's locale.
What locale are you using? From your message filling the bug report:

Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) 

So maybe that is the problem.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=800670 
and upstream's comment at http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19230#8


A possible workaround with grep-2.23 is to force it to process the file
as text, using the -a option, even if it is not a binarly file:

% LANG=C grep -aF -e ï -e ö /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>,
Loïc Minier <lool at debian.org>,
Sebastian Dröge <slomo at debian.org>,


Cheers,

Santiago