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On Tue Feb 19 18:32:44 2013, jkeenan wrote: > On Wed Jan 20 09:59:35 2010, jbenjore wrote: > > On Wed Jan 20 09:54:41 2010, jbenjore wrote: > > > On Mon Jan 18 16:46:21 2010, schwern wrote: > > > > It looks like... > > > > > > > > A) It only effects tarballs that have files with non-7-bit ASCII > > filenames > > > > in them. > > > > B) gnutar 1.17 (2+ years old) handles it, just with a warning. > > > > C) Its been a problem for over 2 years at least and this is the first > > > > we've heard. > > > > > > > > Given how few non-7bit filenames there are, there's no cause for > alarm. > > > > > > > > This bug can be closed out in the p5p tracker, MakeMaker's got it. No > > > need > > > > for a duplicate. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have no idea about tarballs with non-7-bit ASCII filenames. The case > > > I've found is when the user's UID is larger than 6 digits octal. It's > > > actually impossible for me to do the normal steps of `perl Makefile.PL; > > > make dist' for any CPAN module and have the results be universally > > readable. > > > > Incidentally, I do agree about taking this off of 5.12. I didn't know > > til just now that the envelope for hitting the bug was so small. I can > > only assume there aren't that many CPAN authors out there where their > > user account is provisioned through Active Directory or whatever it is > > that caused my UID to be large. > > Joshua, is this ticket closable? > > No reply received in five months. https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=53714 is still open in ExtUtils::MakeMaker's own queue; Joshua and Schwern can follow up there. No need to retain this ticket as open, so I'm resolving it now. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=72100Thread Previous