Bug#929729: lintian: \n in filenames cause "md5sum: ...: No such file or directory"

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Russ,

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 12:50 PM Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Policy 10.10:

Thank you for the pointer to policy.

>     The name of the files installed by binary packages in the system PATH
>     (namely /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/games) must be
>     encoded in ASCII.

That policy appears to be enforced by checks/files.pm. It reads like
the description for the tag 'file-name-in-PATH-is-not-ASCII'.

>     The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
>     outside the system PATH must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be
>     restricted to ASCII when it is possible to do so.

And that reads like the tag 'file-name-is-not-valid-UTF-8'.

Kind regards
Felix