From esr at thyrsus.com Fri Nov 7 17:31:21 2003 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1590161638429004018==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eric S. Raymond To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: RPM submission script Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:36:50 -0500 Message-ID: <20031107223650.GA17174@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: 1068242075.6576.2.camel@opus --===============1590161638429004018== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable seth vidal : > > > ugh - a lot of data in rpms is not utf-8 happy. Often in latin-1 or > > > beyond that in the encoding. > > = > > Again, that's OK. The stuff in the message doesn't include the > > RPM itself, One of the fields is optionally an > > associated-file-resource URL that could *point* at an RPM, but > > that's a different matter. > = > no I mean things like: > descriptions > vendor names > packager names > summaries > filenames > = > shall I continue? :) Maybe you'd better. You're not making any sense to me, which could mean either that you are being stupid, or that I am being stupid, or that we are talking right past one another. We'd better figure out which :-). All bug-bugzilla does is mine some strings out of an RFC822-conformant message and use them to script the bug-submission CGI on a Bugzilla instanc= e. You can think of the message as a job card. (The fields in the job card = can be supplied, or overridden, by command-line options.) One of the fields handed to the CGI may be a URL pointing to an RPM. It seems to me that the encoding of strings *in the RPM* is not an issue at all for bug-bugzilla. Only the contents of the fields in the job card is an issue. I don't understand why the requirement that those be UTF-8 should ever be onerous. = -- = Eric S. Raymond --===============1590161638429004018==--