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Bug#500608: marked as done (Debian APT Packages/Sources file(s) contains illegal byte sequences in this package's segment)



Your message dated Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:02:23 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#500608: Debian APT Packages/Sources file(s) contains illegal byte sequences in this package's segment
has caused the Debian Bug report #500608,
regarding Debian APT Packages/Sources file(s) contains illegal byte sequences in this package's segment
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Package: texinfo
Severity: normal

*** Please type your report below this line ***

(This package cause problems with:
Sources
)

Please check character encoding used in the Debian control files
of this package. As by now, in etch Packages/Sources file,
the segment of this package contains illegal for UTF-8 byte
sequence(s).
Likely, your files are in Latin-1 or same, instead of UTF-8,
and contain separate non-ASCII symbols. As a result,
the Packages/Sources file(s) is a bit corrupted, in Synaptic
info from incorrect fields is N/A.

Possibly this command will report error for you (substitute
right values):

sed -n '/^Package: THISPACKAGENAME$/,/^$/ p' \
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_BINA\
RIES-OR-SOURCES | iconv -t UTF32 > /dev/null

Usually, illegal secuences are located in 'Maintainers',
'Uploaders' or 'Description' fields.

The beginning of this bug-hunt is there:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500491




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Version: 4.8.dfsg.1-5

On 29.09.08 Sergio Leone (forester.mirkwood@gmail.com) wrote:

> Package: texinfo
> Severity: normal
> 
> *** Please type your report below this line ***
> 
> (This package cause problems with:
> Sources
> )
> 
> 
> The beginning of this bug-hunt is there:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500491
> 
As written in this bug, you checken only the etch version of the
packages. We utf-8'ed the texinfo package a while ago:

texinfo (4.8.dfsg.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * adjust suggests to include texlive-generic-recommended and remove
    tetex (Closes: #422518)
  * lintian fixes:
    - move dh compat setting from rules to debian/compat
    - save control file in UTF8

 -- Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>  Tue, 15 May 2007 15:00:37 +0200

Closing.
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sigmentation fault


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