Bug#574029: jh_manifest utf8 errors

[Eric Lavarde]

On 13/05/10 13:49, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been able to reproduce this on a testing system, but no in my
> unstable chroot. I noticed that each time I run the test, the byte value
> in question changed and eventually (given enough runs) it will succeed,
> but add a character to the manifest.
>    I am at a loss to the reason of the problem and also why it works in
> my unstable chroot - python-debian and python-minimal had same version
> in testing and my chroot and messing with locale did not seem to fix it.
>
> ~Niels
>
Hi,

I guess that there is some random factor in place, and for me it looks 
like a C-alike wrong pointer: so for me it's an error in an underlying 
python library implemented in C/C++ (don't know in which language python 
itself is written; I'm assuming that python itself doesn't work with 
pointers). The only remaining question is probably: which library? and 
then the bug could be reassigned.

Eric