Bug#895175: lintian: Argument "Users" isn't numeric in int at ...

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 895175 + pending
thanks

Fixed in Git, pending upload:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=a75f3edcb099bd4b8794e2ecb7fd19e129e77f03

This was due to a space in the orig tarball permissions:

   -rw-r--r-- dowling/ANT\Domain Users    667 2015-09-09 18:32 guzzle_sphinx_theme-0.7.11/setup.py

Our call to split (ie.):

  ($perm,$ownership,$size,$date,$time,$name)=split(' ', $line, 6);

... then sets $ownership to "dowling/ANT\Domain" and $size to "Users".

There is no foolproof fix here as long as we are still relying on the
output of tar; even if we allow arbitrary spaces here, you can still
"inject" date-like strings into the filename. Or maybe we could use
tar's --quoting-style argument...


Regards,

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