Debian Bug report logs - #457489
apt: Convert Packages/Source file from utf-8 to codeset.

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:42:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version apt/0.7.9

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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

It seems that currently apt does not convert the Packages or Sources
file to the codeset from the terminal.  This is probably because there
never was and still isn't a requirement that the debian/control
file is written in a certain encoding.  However most packages
do have their control file written so that they're compatible with UTF-8.
Apt also currently already converts the long description from UTF-8
to the current codeset.

It seems there currently are 11 packages that aren't compatible with
UTF-8:
http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tdebian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html

There is also a release goad that tries to get rid of those, see
bug #453954.

I've attached a patch that tries to convert it from utf-8 to the
currently selected codeset, and return the original string if it fails.

One effect this change has is that descriptions for any of those packages
now show up fully instead of being truncated at the first char that
isn't UTF-8.  

I might not have written a patch that's does the changes at the right
place because I'm not familiar with the code.  But the changes work for
me.


Kurt


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