Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:53:47PM +1200, Steven Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:18:33PM +1200, Steven Drake wrote:
> > > :On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 02:58:25AM +0000, Steven Drake wrote:
> > > > > Module Name:  pkgsrc
> > > > > Committed By: sbd
> > > > > Date:         Thu Apr  5 02:58:25 UTC 2012
> > > > > 
> > > > > Modified Files:
> > > > >       pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-faroese: Makefile
> > > > >       pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-norwegian: Makefile
> > > > >       pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-portuguese: Makefile
> > > > >       pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-romanian: Makefile
> > > > >       pkgsrc/textproc/aspell-spanish: Makefile
> > > > > 
> > > > > Log Message:
> > > > > Mark packages as BROKEN if using "pkg" package format on Linux.
> > > > 
> > > > Why?
> > > 
> > > 8 bit characters in file/link names. 
> > > 
> > > As briefly as possible: libarchive can't translate the names to utf8 
> > > because msbtowcs on linux wont work unless LC_CTYPE is set appropriately.
> > 
> > I still don't see why the packages have to use UTF8 file names though.
> > It seems an arbitary and unnecessary choice.
> 
> That's why I contacted you (as a libarchive developer) first about the 
> problem!

As I said, the code is right to warn about about them, if mbstowcs
fails. That's a completely separate question from marking packages as
BROKEN, they just shouldn't be using those names in first place.

Joerg