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Hi Perl team,

today bug #1007914 libfile-keepass-perl came up as Bug of the Day[1].
As far as I'm informed the Uploader Jonas Genannt is not active
currently and we should care as a team for this bug.

In contrast to all other Perl packages it seems the package was not
migrated to Salsa yet (for whatever reason). Moreover I realised that
the old Alioth archive[2] was cleaned up somehow and does not contain
the old repositories any more.

Before I start working on the package I would like to ask around whether someone might be able to restore the old repository to keep the packaging history. If this is not possible I can recreate a repository using
`gbp import-dscs`.

I also need help to fix the actual issue reported in bug #1007914 since
my Perl skills are extremely limited. If someone would be able to
provide a patch (either to BTS or to Git once we restored the
repository) this would be extremely helpful.

Kind regards
Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks#bug-of-the-day
[2] https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/

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Hi Andreas,

In contrast to all other Perl packages it seems the package was not
migrated to Salsa yet (for whatever reason).

Actually, it was but the tracker still links to alioth: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-keepass-perl

Cheers,
Alex

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Hi ALex,

Am Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 11:58:34AM +0200 schrieb Alex Muntada:

Actually, it was but the tracker still links to alioth: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-keepass-perl

Sorry, seems it was to early this morning when I checked. ;-)
I added myself to Uploaders to possibly upload this package.

Any comment about bug #1007914?

Kind regards
Andreas .

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-=| Andreas Tille, 26.07.2025 15:29:28 +0200 |=-

Any comment about bug #1007914?

I think the problem is on line 1248 of lib/File/KeePass.pm:

s/([^\x00-\x7F])/'&#'.(ord $1).';'/ge;

It replaces all non-ASCII characters with &#<ord>;.

Notably, this does not affect any controll characters like the escape
character (which is a perfectly valid ASCII character, just not
allowed in XML). It would also not work for vertical tab, nul and all
sorts of other funny characters.

Changing that to

s/([^\x20-\x7F])/'&#'.(ord $1).';'/ge;

would fix the problem.

Or at least I think so. With no way to replicate the issue, I am just
poking blindly here.


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Hi Damyan,

Am Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 05:51:17PM +0300 schrieb Damyan Ivanov:

Changing that to

s/([^\x20-\x7F])/'&#'.(ord $1).';'/ge;

would fix the problem.

Thanks a lot. I've pushed the change to Git[1].

@Rhonda: Could you give the patch a try? If it helps I can upload to experimental closing the bug and you can reopen if needed.

Kind regards
Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-keepass-perl/-/commit/ae5aff98ac252def920e221a6de6aed7abf81b6b

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