Bug#893418: Corrupted package names in by_vote.gz

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 04:18:28PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 03:35:01PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 02:24:39PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 02:10:07PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Probably. Is the format of that file documented somewhere?
> > > > This is a list of key/value pair in RFC822 style.
> > > > See /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/examples/bin/README.examples
> > > > for the format of the Package line.
> > > 
> > > I have a few questions:
> > > 
> > > How is the package name separated from the integer fields? It does not
> > > look like a fixed-width field:
> > > 
> > > Package: abev-form-obhgepi-fpk-nav          0     0     0     2
> > > Package: abev-form-obhgepi-fpk-nav-egyeb     0     0     0     2
> > > 
> > > If it is instead space-separated, currently I didn't see package names
> > > that contained spaces, but is there a guarantee that the package name
> > > won't contain spaces?
> > 
> > It is garanteed that package name will not contain spaces.
> > 
> > > Alternatively, should the parsing instead be done by splitting on \s+
> > > from the right with a maximum of 4 splits?
> > > 
> > > Some package names seem to be truncated, like this one:
> > > 
> > > Package: apache-openoffice-4.1.4-linux-x86-install-rpm-de     0     0     0     1
> > 
> > The server should not truncate anything. I will check what happened.
> 
> The package name is truncated in the submitter report already.
> Maybe dpkg-query truncated it, maybe it was truncated even before.

In fact there is no truncation: -de is the language code for german!
<https://www.openoffice.org/de/download/>

Apparently a number of non-official packages use the character _ in their
name.

I have fixed the corruptions caused by truncated reports.

Do you still see corrupted entries?

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

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