#1150252 grep-excuses: handle UTF-8 with --wipnity

Package:
devscripts
Source:
devscripts
Description:
scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Submitter:
gregor herrmann
Date:
2026-11-03 15:45:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1150252#5
Date:
2026-10-07 16:11:06 UTC
From:
To:
grep-excuses's --wipnity option doesn't handle the UTF-8 returned
from 'https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=$pkg' nicely:

% grep-excuses --wipnity libimager-qrcode-perl
No excuse for libimager-qrcode-perl

Applicable release.debian.org bugs:

  ⢠[DEL:#1150107: nmu: libimager-qrcode-perl_0.035+dfsg-2:DEL]


With the attached patch, which tells Perl to regard STDIN in the
wipnity() sub as containing UTF-8, this looks much better:

% grep-excuses --wipnity libimager-qrcode-perl
No excuse for libimager-qrcode-perl

Applicable release.debian.org bugs:

  • [DEL:#1150107: nmu: libimager-qrcode-perl_0.035+dfsg-2:DEL]


There are other options, like setting STDIN to UTF-8 in general or
explicitly decoding $dump and probably more, but this is a very
minimal change only in this function.


Cheers,
gregor
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#1150252#10
Date:
2026-11-03 13:45:45 UTC
From:
To:
Hi, Gregor.

Just to let you know that I opened a MR with your changes at devscripts
salsa git repo,

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/677

Regards,
#1150252#15
Date:
2026-11-03 15:30:23 UTC
From:
To:
control: tags -1 + pending
thanks

thank you both, merged into main now.
#1150252#20
Date:
2026-11-03 15:29:40 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

Bug #1150252 in devscripts reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/commit/add2b5615e2eca54bc80841d449adfff32875e23
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grep-excuses: handle UTF-8 with --wipnity

grep-excuses's --wipnity option doesn't handle the UTF-8 returned
from 'https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=$pkg' nicely:

% grep-excuses --wipnity libimager-qrcode-perl
No excuse for libimager-qrcode-perl

Applicable release.debian.org bugs:

  ⢠[DEL:#1150107: nmu: libimager-qrcode-perl_0.035+dfsg-2:DEL]

With the attached patch, which tells Perl to regard STDIN in the
wipnity() sub as containing UTF-8, this looks much better:

% grep-excuses --wipnity libimager-qrcode-perl
No excuse for libimager-qrcode-perl

Applicable release.debian.org bugs:

  • [DEL:#1150107: nmu: libimager-qrcode-perl_0.035+dfsg-2:DEL]

There are other options, like setting STDIN to UTF-8 in general or
explicitly decoding $dump and probably more, but this is a very
minimal change only in this function.

Closes: #1150252

Signed-off-by: Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>
(cherry picked from commit 41ac7c26d2bd5979b16fc1a4be2938adc3ffc5c3)
Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
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-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1150252
#1150252#25
Date:
2026-11-03 15:41:47 UTC
From:
To:
Thank you both from me as well :)


Cheers,
gregor