[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#782494: puppet: Non-ASCII user realnames cause encoding errors when running with a UTF-8 locale

[Cédric Barboiron]

tags 782494 + patch
thanks

Hi,

This is indeed related to upstream bug #22703. The fix to this bug is no longer
needed, since ruby Etc module now handles encoding correctly (from ruby 2.1.0)

  commit 4c009414119347e87d9bb2402617a4585dd3f341
  Author: nobu <nobu at b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>
  Date:   Sat Aug 3 00:46:10 2013 +0000
  
      etc.c: encodings
      
      * ext/etc/etc.c (setup_passwd, setup_group): set proper encodings to
        string members.

Test with the following user : useradd -c 'éèéù' test

Just before this commit (at 042e5013a3bc42a3637aa1646e9fc002436b852f) :
  ruby -retc -e 'p Etc.getpwnam("test").gecos.encoding'
  #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>

At commit 4c009414119347e87d9bb2402617a4585dd3f341 :
  ruby -retc -e 'p Etc.getpwnam("test").gecos.encoding'
  #<Encoding:UTF-8>

The following patch has been tested successfully on wheezy and jessie.

Regards
-- 
Cédric
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