Package: libsvn1 Version: 1.5.1dfsg1-2 Severity: normal
Problem: I've got a subversion repository stored at a path which contains UTF-8 encoded cyrillic characters. Basic SVN operations like checkouts and commits work fine. However, trac's trac-admin tool refuses to resync and instead tells that it cannot find the specified repository: Command failed: /srv/дждждж does not appear to be a Subversion repository. Reason: It turns out that Subversion tries to convert (decode) the path argument whenever it thinks that it's not UTF-8 in get_path_encoding(). This in turn relies on APR which tells that with the exception of Darwin, which has UTF-8 encoded paths, the paths on Linux are locale-specific, in apr_filepath_encoding(). As it tries to encode an already UTF-8 encoded path into UTF-8, only garbage comes out of the conversion. Solution/workaround: trac-admin resync works fine when I modify libsvn's svn_path_cstring_from_utf8 in libsvn_subr/path.c to always assume UTF-8 encoded paths independently of what APR tells it. Obviously, this assumption cannot be generalised, but given that in the case of assumed locale-specific encodings no proper decoding is performed, it looks to me like most users would benefit from such a change. As an additional modification, I've changed svn_utf_cstring_from_utf8 to svn_path_cstring_from_utf8 in libsvn_repos/repos.c, otherwise it wouldn't take advantage of the change above. This looks like an oversight in the code to me, there shouldn't be a reason to use svn_utf_cstring_from_utf8 directly without the svn_path_cstring_from_utf8 safety wrapper. In summary, the first issue needs some more logic to find out whether the paths of the system in question are encoded in UTF-8 (something which is safer to assume by default than locale-specific encodings on Debian IMHO); the second issue should be an easy bugfix. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libsvn1 depends on: ii libapr1 1.2.12-5 The Apache Portable Runtime Librar ii libaprutil1 1.2.12+dfsg-8+lenny2 The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-11 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [ ii libneon27-gnutls 0.28.2-6.1 An HTTP and WebDAV client library ii libsasl2-2 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra ii libserf-0-0 0.2.0-1 high-performance asynchronous HTTP ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime libsvn1 recommends no packages. libsvn1 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
