Bug#361872: debconf-copydb: Trashes debconf database in /target
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:10:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> If it's using ascii that's valid, anyway cdebconf should also be sure to
> copy Description-xx[_XX] fields too, as debconf will store them that way
> if the package doesn't specifiy an encoding.
Well, some of the fields seem to be ASCII; some of them are UTF-8.
What do you propose in this case -- hacking support for this kind of
"undefined encoding" stuff into cdebconf? We'd probably need to carry
quite a bit of metadata around even if we only wanted to copy the character
set, much less parse it... (Disclaimer: I haven't looked properly at cdebconf
source since I was active in d-i development around 2003 or so, so there
might be easier ways.)
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