Bug#893418: Corrupted package names in by_vote.gz

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:06:17PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> > So I do not think the server should do it blindly. It is probably better
> > to do it client-side.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> If arbitrary user-supplied input is passed to the data files that get
> published, is there precise documentation of the format of those files,
> so that one can implement parsers that don't choke on the unexpected?

I would suggest users does not try to parse the vote file.
Instead we provide the file
<https://popcon.debian.org/all-popcon-results.gz>
whose content is better defined.
Would that do for you ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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