ampersand in file names causes error message

[Charles Curley]

Probably non-fatal, but... I am using Back In Time (BiT) 0.9.26 on Debian stable. I listed a directory in the BiT interface. The directory has in it files with ampersands in the name. BiT produced the following error message:

/usr/share/backintime/gnome/app.py:1058: GtkWarning: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as &
  gtk.main()

charles@grissom:~/ogg$ ls | grep '&'
DeanMartin&TheDuke11.wmv
Lorin Maazel & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Lorin Maazel & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.Tchaikovsky & Beethoven.mp3.m3u
Muti & Philadelphia Orchestr
Muti & Philadelphia Orchestr.Tchaikovsky Symphony #6.mp3.m3u
Muti The Philadelphia Orch.Symphony 5 & Francesca da Rimini.mp3.m3u
charles@grissom:~/ogg$

[Germar (germar)]

Version 0.9.26 is quite old and this has been fixed in revision 613.2.11. But I'll add Debian to affected Distribution so maybe the package maintainer can backport with this patch

[Charles Curley (charlescurley)]

Excellent. There is no newer version in backports.

The diff worked like a charm; thank you.

I consider this bug closed. I don't see any way to close it, or I'd do that for you.