Bug#929729: lintian: \n in filenames cause "md5sum: ...: No such file or directory"
Hi Chris,
On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 12:42 PM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
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> Do we need any of these techniques? Can we decree that the index files
> are escaped or unescaped (I'd be +1 on the latter, mind)
The index files seem to be inspired by the 't' option in tar. My sense
is that we need more encoding rather than less to preserve the meaning
of whitespace, and especially newlines, in those files. I do not think
we can leave the filenames unescaped, if that is what you are
suggesting.
> and then
> adjust all the consumer/producers of that data to reflect that? The
> current situation as I understand it is that some assume the former,
> some the latter.
I believe there is only one of each. Please let me know if you found others.
This is the producer:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/collection/unpacked#L96-100
and this is the consumer:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm#L518
which uses the subroutine 'dequote_name' from here:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Util.pm#L775-795
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