Debian Bug report logs - #12232
FIXED in NMU [was: dpkg-deb i18n bug]

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es>

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg-deb i18n bug

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 18:41:07 +0100 (WEST)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.19

If locale is set to spanish, french, german or any other locale which
doesn't use a "." as the decimal separator, dpkg-deb doesn't recognize
the old format debian archives.

.../stable/binary-i386/x11$ file xkeycaps_2.29-3.deb 
xkeycaps_2.29-3.deb: old Debian binary package (format 0.939000)

.../stable/binary-i386/x11$ env | grep LC_ALL
LC_ALL=es_ES

.../stable/binary-i386/x11$ dpkg-deb -f xkeycaps_2.29-3.deb 
dpkg-deb: `xkeycaps_2.29-3.deb' is not a debian format archive

.../stable/binary-i386/x11$ export LC_ALL=C

.../stable/binary-i386/x11$ dpkg-deb -f xkeycaps_2.29-3.deb
PACKAGE: xkeycaps
VERSION: 2.29-3
[...]

The cause is that at some point sscanf is used to extract a float
from the string "0.939000\n", and sscanf uses the current locale definition 
of "decimal_point", (for german, french, spanish, and many others it is a 
comma), so it will extract "0" instead of "0.939"

As there are other "scanf"s in the source, there may be other 
related bugs.

The suggested patch is:

   ..........................

*** dpkg-1.4.0.19/dpkg-deb/main.c.orig Fri Aug 22 18:11:40 1997
--- dpkg-1.4.0.19/dpkg-deb/main.c      Fri Aug 22 18:12:03 1997
***************
*** 137,142 ****
--- 137,143 ----
    jmp_buf ejbuf;
  
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+   setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "POSIX");
    bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
    textdomain(PACKAGE);

   ..........................

	Thanks,
-- 
Enrique Zanardi					ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna

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