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Bug 563092 - repoman should reject ebuilds that are not UTF8 encoded
Summary: repoman should reject ebuilds that are not UTF8 encoded
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Repoman (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal enhancement
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2015-10-15 03:01 UTC by SpanKY
Modified: 2022-07-12 03:32 UTC (History)
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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev 2015-10-15 03:01:11 UTC 
to prevent mistakes in encoding, we should reject ebuilds that do not decode as utf8.  i think we already do this for metadata.xml, but we should expand it.

i would also like to see it apply to patches, but since we have to patch upstream files that not might be utf8 encoded, we can't enforce it there easily :(.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2015-10-15 14:31:32 UTC 
in fact, PMS already requires ebuilds be UTF8 encoded :)

Ebuild File Format
...  The file encoding must be UTF-8 with Unix-style newlines. ...
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-07-12 03:18:39 UTC 
repoman support has been removed per bug 835013.

Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.
Comment 3 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-07-12 03:32:21 UTC 
pkgcheck has InvalidUTF8. Not sure if it's sufficient.