[DRE-maint] Bug#596351: reproducible, but could be removed from testing?

[Chris Butler]

FWIW, I managed to reproduce this. Simply edit /etc/passwd and add a
character above 127 in a non-UTF charset to one of the full-name fields - I
used £ in iso-8859-1 (using set fileencoding=iso-8859-1 in vim).


The ohai package currently in squeeze and sid has an RC bug
(#596351). The first message in the bugreport suggests that the problem
might actually be down to an old version of libjson-ruby (latest upstream
seems to be 1.4.6).

The popcon for ohai is pretty low (~50). Perhaps it could be considered for
removal from squeeze? I would imagine that wheezy will contain a version of
libjson-ruby that doesn't trigger the bug.

kthxbai,
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