Bug #66113 for ExtUtils-MakeMaker: WriteMakefile should fail if ^H or other special chars in arguments

Thu Feb 24 04:57:04 2011 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

WriteMakefile should fail if ^H or other special chars in arguments

WriteMakefile should fail if it get bad characters in its arguments. That would help to warn a CPAN author early. Use case: There is currently a module on the CPAN (Device::Kiln::Orton) which has ^H in its ABSTRACT. This causes problems on the CPAN infrastructure when module metadata is exported as XML as ^H is an invalid XML char. For more details, see RT#58038 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58038 -- Olivier Mengué - http://search.cpan.org/~dolmen/ http://github.com/dolmen/

Thu Feb 24 05:11:48 2011 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

A reasonable list of acceptable characters would be the list from the XML specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets -- Olivier Mengué - http://search.cpan.org/~dolmen/ http://github.com/dolmen/

Thu Feb 24 05:11:48 2011 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Feb 24 07:33:30 2011 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Reference to ticket #66120 added

Mon Jul 15 09:51:30 2013 BINGOS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 15 min

I have patched EUMM in the repository to warn and strip control characters from ABSTRACT. Many thanks.

Mon Jul 15 09:51:31 2013 BINGOS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Mon Jul 15 10:04:32 2013 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Le 2013-07-15 15:51:30, BINGOS a écrit : Show quoted text

> I have patched EUMM in the repository to warn and strip control > characters from ABSTRACT.

Just for the record: https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/commit/23e68e75a5ae8baac9a9312502f303ed4e262222 Show quoted text

> Many thanks.

Thanks for the fix! -- Olivier Mengué - http://perlresume.org/DOLMEN

Tue Jul 23 18:07:07 2013 BINGOS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This issue is now resolved with the release of 6.70 Many thanks.

Tue Jul 23 18:07:07 2013 BINGOS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'