some garbage on name resolution failure

[chastell]

When aptitude 0.2.15.9-3ubuntu6 can’t resolve the domain name of the repository, the error shows as

Temporary failure resolving \uffff~@~Xarchive.ubuntu.com\uffff~@~Y

(the \uffff parts show as empty Unicode squares).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I think this is fixed in dapper, I wasn't able to reproduce it there (tried to run:
# aptitude update
with a invalid domain name in sources.list).

Was that the correct way to reproduce it?

It would be great if you could confirm that (e.g. with a recent live-cd).

Cheers,
 Michael

[chastell (chastell)]

Running `sudo aptitude update` in gnome-terminal from the terminal gives the proper (for en_GB.UTF-8 locale) line of (note the curly quotes)

Could not resolve ‘niema.takiego.numeru’

but running aptitude in the ncurses interface and doing an ‘u’ for update gives

Could not resolve \uffff~@~Xniema.takiego.numeru\uffff~@~Y

It might be a ncurses bug, but, for example, the interface’s semigraphic boxes (e.g. for the ‘Downloaded 4B in 1s (3B/s)’ box) are painted properly.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for this additional information.

aptitude in dapper is using utf8 all over the place now in the gui. So this problem should be gone (and I can't reproduce it on my dapper box).

Thanks,
 Michael

[chastell (chastell)]

FWIW, sid’s aptitude 0.4.1-1 works ok on my Debian box; sorry for not checking this earlier.

Thanks, I’ll close this bug.

[chastell (chastell)]

Fixed in Dapper’s aptitude 0.4.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

I am changing the Status to "Fix Released" (and closing the bug) since, indeed, this fix is now available to everyone, as confirmed by the reporter.