popcon.ubuntu.com: invalid package names in all-popcon-results.txt.gz

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

the popularity contest results that can be obtained from [1] contain invalid package names:

    % zgrep texlive-lang-norw all-popcon-results.txt.gz
    Package: texlive-lang-norwegiant8,��▒i�d�6!Eԍ 0 1 0 0
    Package: texlive-lang-norwegian 322 23930 898 8008

There are also some package names that contain slashes. This also should not happen.

It would be nice, if there was a basic check for valid names (e.g. only characters from [a-zA-Z0-9.-+] as documented in [2]).

Regards,
Ansgar

[1] http://popcon.ubuntu.com/all-popcon-results.txt.gz
[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Source

[Matthew East (mdke)]

The ubuntu-website team doesn't have access to popcon.ubuntu.com as far as I know. The only way I can think of to get the attention of someone who might be able to address this bug is by opening it on the popularity-contest bug in Ubuntu so I'm doing so.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

As noted on the ubuntu-devel mailing list we decided to remove the package from the default install and discard the Ubuntu delta for the package, subsequently this bug is something we won't be fixing.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-July/041089.html