[pve-devel] [PATCH manager] api: apt: Return valid utf8 on update
Maximiliano Sandoval
m.sandoval at proxmox.com
Thu Sep 25 16:49:29 CEST 2025
The following call could result in a broken encoding when a package
description contains unicode characters.
pvesh get /nodes/localhost/apt/update
One potential example of such a package was libnbd0 where the character
'—' (em dash) was rendered as 'â'.
The file at /var/lib/pve-manager/pkgupdates would also have the wrong
encoding.
This patch fixes both issues.
Reported-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner at proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval at proxmox.com>
---
One unfortunate problem for reproducing this issue is that this particular
package is already on the latest version on the Proxmox VE 9.0 iso.
PVE/API2/APT.pm | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/PVE/API2/APT.pm b/PVE/API2/APT.pm
index 0d07cf38..27842aa6 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/APT.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/APT.pm
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ my $assemble_pkginfo = sub {
if (my $desc = $info->{LongDesc}) {
$desc =~ s/^.*\n\s?//; # remove first line
$desc =~ s/\n / /g;
- $data->{Description} = $desc;
+ $data->{Description} = decode('UTF-8', $desc);
}
foreach my $k (qw(Section Arch Priority)) {
--
2.47.3
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