https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=686328 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=686328#c0 Summary: rpmlint: incomplete error message for non-utf8-spec-file Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Development AssignedTo: dmueller@novell.com ReportedBy: suse-beta@cboltz.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Beta-Customer Blocker: --- Please change the non-utf8-spec-file error message as proposed below ;-) (from opensuse-packaging) on Freitag, 1. April 2011, Per Jessen wrote:

Juergen Weigert wrote:

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On Apr 01, 11 12:27:55 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote: Quoting "Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar" :

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Quoting Per Jessen : This is very likely in this case a non-UTF8 character in jfsutils.changes.

The original error message was misleading: ] non-utf8-spec-file /tmp/rpmlint.jfsutils-1.1.15-1.src.rpm.zuUJ47/jfsutils.spec ] The character encoding of the spec file is not UTF-8. Convert it for ] example using iconv(1).

Can we change this to say e.g. ] non-utf8-spec-file /tmp/rpmlint.jfsutils-1.1.15-1.src.rpm.zuUJ47/jfsutils.spec ] The character encoding of the spec file (or merged changes file) is not UTF-8. ] Convert it for example using iconv(1).

Per, would that have helped?

That would have given me a better idea, yes. I'm pretty certain I would have spotted the problem if I had known to look in the changes file too.

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