[gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Georgi Georgiev]

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A few category level metadata.xml have broken encoding. Looking at the
cvs log, once the cause was sejo's commits with the dutch translations
that did it.

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/app-admin/metadata.xml?r1=1.4&r2=1.5
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/app-accessibility/metadata.xml?r1=1.3&r2=1.4

At another time it was the addition of the spanish stuff by araujo:

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dev-cpp/metadata.xml?r1=1.2&r2=1.3

Starts to smell of a cvs problem...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Wed, 11 May 2005 09:36:06 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
wrote:
| A few category level metadata.xml have broken encoding. Looking at the
| cvs log, once the cause was sejo's commits with the dutch translations
| that did it.

Known issue. Long story as to why it happens, but we're blaming it on
RedHat. I'll fix the whole lot whenever a working nano goes stable.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:44 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 09:36:06 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
>
> wrote:
> | A few category level metadata.xml have broken encoding. Looking at the
> | cvs log, once the cause was sejo's commits with the dutch translations
> | that did it.
>
> Known issue. Long story as to why it happens, but we're blaming it on
> RedHat. I'll fix the whole lot whenever a working nano goes stable.

since i refuse to use UTF8 can someone verify that nano-1.3.7 is 
broken/working in this respect ?
-mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Tuan Van]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> since i refuse to use UTF8 can someone verify that nano-1.3.7 is 
> broken/working in this respect ?
> -mike

WFM with vi_VN.UTF-8
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Georgi Georgiev]

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maillog: 11/05/2005-01:44:19(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 09:36:06 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
> wrote:
> | A few category level metadata.xml have broken encoding. Looking at the
> | cvs log, once the cause was sejo's commits with the dutch translations
> | that did it.
> 
> Known issue. Long story as to why it happens, but we're blaming it on
> RedHat. I'll fix the whole lot whenever a working nano goes stable.

Not sure why you want to wait longer. It only gets worse. The German
description in app-admin/metadata.xml needs an "iconv -f utf8 -t latin1"
to get it fixed (automatically doable), but the Spanish one needs this
treatment twice already... These numbers will only keep growing. Of
course since it's you who's going to be doing it, it's your call to do
it the way that you find to be the most convenient.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Wed, 11 May 2005 10:39:57 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
wrote:
| Not sure why you want to wait longer. It only gets worse. The German
| description in app-admin/metadata.xml needs an "iconv -f utf8 -t
| latin1" to get it fixed (automatically doable), but the Spanish one
| needs this treatment twice already... These numbers will only keep
| growing. Of course since it's you who's going to be doing it, it's
| your call to do it the way that you find to be the most convenient.

No, they won't keep growing.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:36 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> Starts to smell of a cvs problem...

actually i'd bet money on crappy editors eating the files
-mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Elfyn McBratney]

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On Wednesday 11 May 2005 01:45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:36 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > Starts to smell of a cvs problem...
>
> actually i'd bet money on crappy editors eating the files

Like nano ? :P
/me ducks

Best,
Elfyn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Wed, 11 May 2005 01:57:15 +0100 Elfyn McBratney <beu@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Wednesday 11 May 2005 01:45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
| > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:36 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
| > > Starts to smell of a cvs problem...
| >
| > actually i'd bet money on crappy editors eating the files
| 
| Like nano ? :P

Hah, actually it was vim that did most of the category-level munging
thanks to a weird bug we (Seemant's name removed to protect the guilty
party) inherited from RedHat which would make vim sometimes not realise
it had to go to utf-8 mode on certain locales. It's fixed in 6.3.068.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Lars Weiler]

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* Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net> [05/05/11 09:36 +0900]:
> Starts to smell of a cvs problem...

Two ideas to handle a check of metadata.xml:
1) repoman should run xmllint
2) the cvs-server can do it during commit (like it already
does with other xml-documents)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Fernando J. Pereda]

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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:13:11PM +0200, Lars Weiler wrote:
> * Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net> [05/05/11 09:36 +0900]:
> > Starts to smell of a cvs problem...
> 
> Two ideas to handle a check of metadata.xml:
> 1) repoman should run xmllint
> 2) the cvs-server can do it during commit (like it already
> does with other xml-documents)
> 

Though I like (1) (probably (2) is redundant here) this will neither
solve nor prevent what happened to that metadata files since they are
XML valid and GLEP31 valid. (i.e. the file is UTF-8)

Cheers,
Ferdy

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Lars Weiler]

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* Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@gentoo.org> [05/05/11 13:22 +0200]:
> Though I like (1) (probably (2) is redundant here) this will neither
> solve nor prevent what happened to that metadata files since they are
> XML valid and GLEP31 valid. (i.e. the file is UTF-8)

Oh, well.  Miscommunication.  The bugs should be outlined
better ;-)

Regards, Lars

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bad metadata.xml encoding

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 07:13 am, Lars Weiler wrote:
> * Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net> [05/05/11 09:36 +0900]:
> > Starts to smell of a cvs problem...
>
> Two ideas to handle a check of metadata.xml:
> 1) repoman should run xmllint
> 2) the cvs-server can do it during commit (like it already
> does with other xml-documents)

well since you dont use repoman to commit at the category level i dont see how 
(1) would really work ... plus you could just not use repoman and commit with 
(2) yourself

i wouldnt mind seeing (2) happening on 'metadata.xml' files
-mike
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