[DRE-maint] Bug#773485: Bug#768127: Fails to build the index when invalid UTF-8 is met

[Yavor Doganov]

gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:02:58 -0100, Daniel Getz wrote:
> > However, the code in question is in ruby-debian, which is a
> > separate library used by other packages. Might not be correct
> > behavior for other users of the library?
> 
> Right, cloning+reassigning to ruby-debian might make sense.
> Let's do this :)
> (And close the original bug since it does fix another problem.)

Thanks.  I used "dpkg --update-avail" to get rid of that ancient
package and now dhelp works as expected.  (Thought dpkg was doing this
automatically these days...)

> Probably the severity in the cloned bug in ruby-debian shoule be
> lowered; the problem might not be present if a non-UTF-9 file is not
> opened as UTF-8 ...

You're probably right; it's up to the ruby-debian maintainers.

Thanks to both of you for your efforts.