#1099921 cruft-ng: unicode JSON output sent to NCDU is not properly escaped

Package:
cruft-ng
Source:
cruft-ng
Description:
program that finds any cruft built up on your system
Submitter:
Alexandre Detiste
Date:
2026-03-01 12:21:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1099921#5
Date:
2025-03-09 15:43:52 UTC
From:
To:
This defect happens sometime in DebCI

 63s autopkgtest [01:35:40]: test ncdu: [-----------------------
 64s 268551987 apt
 64s 8640277 systemd
 64s 3065408 locales
 64s 1810201 debconf
 64s 695279 dpkg
 64s 546741 ca-certificates
 64s 229237 autopkgtest
 64s 90851 ALTERNATIVES
 64s 48202 init-system-helpers
 64s 24239 base-files
 65s jq: parse error: Invalid string: control characters from U+0000 through U+001F must be escaped at line 93, column 5
 65s autopkgtest [01:35:42]: test ncdu: -----------------------]
▸ test ncdu: test results

https://ci.debian.net/packages/c/cruft-ng/unstable/amd64/58070705/