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FS#31461 - [glib2] should not deviate from upstream by enabling broken filenames by default

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Friday, 07 September 2012, 22:23 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 16:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 8
Private No

Details

The glib2 package currently adds glib.sh and glib.csh to /etc/profile.d which export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1.

Here is the original bug report where this was enabled: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5487. Part of the justification was to follow what Red Hat does, but Fedora has since removed G_BROKEN_FILENAMES (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708536) and other distributions like Ubuntu have never used this.

Libraries like pango simply die (crash!) when passed a non-utf8 filename, as this isn't really supported by upstream and I don't think it makes sense to turn on broken setting by default - if people want this, they can turn it on themselves (once they are aware that this breaks many, many applications).
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 16:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  This has been fixed in SVN. As we're in the process of packaging GNOME 3.6 prerelease packages, you'll see this in the repositories as soon as glib2 2.34.0 is released.

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