Bug#847221: debsums: false positive missing file in open-vm-tools-desktop package - encoding issue?

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> open-vm-tools-desktop contains a file with a 'interesting' name:
> 
>   /lib/systemd/system/run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount
> 
> and debsums reports that the file is missing although it exists in the
> file system:
> 
>   # debsums -ac
>   debsums: missing file /lib/systemd/system/run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount (from open-vm-tools-desktop package)
> 
>   # ls -la '/lib/systemd/system/run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount' 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 460 Nov 16 02:35 /lib/systemd/system/run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount

Thanks for this bug report!

I could reproduce the issue inside a clean chroot.

> Maybe the backslash has been escaped once too much?

Sounds so, yes. Will have a look.

		Regards, Axel
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