Bug#880368: YAML::XS::Load expects utf8 octets, not perl's encoding; use slurp_raw

[Don Armstrong]

On Sun, 05 Nov 2017, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Anyway, using YAML::Any has several problems:
> - it's deprecated
> - it may load YAML or YAML::XS which have some security issues [1]

Heh; that's a pretty nice bug.

> Instead, I'm going to replace YAML::Any with YAML::Tiny (which is more than 
> enough in this case).

Sounds great; any solution is good for me. [I just want to be able to
write out UTF-8 names of copyright holders.]

> Thanks for the report . This helps me improve dpkg model for cme (and
> led to the release of Config::Model::Tester 3.003 which did not handle
> utf-8 correctly while checking file content).

No problem! Thanks for maintaining this. [It made updating
debian/copyright in autorandr much, much easier.]

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