Package: drsync
Version: 0.4.3-6
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
Tags: l10n

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.8
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15
(charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages drsync depends on:
ii  libgetopt-mixed-perl          1.008-10   Perl module for processing 
ii  perl                          5.8.7-3    Larry Wall's Practical 
ii  rsync                         2.6.5-1    fast remote file copy 

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When using drsync with --state-file, files and directories with
special characters are not synced correctly.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test2$ touch ~/test/äöü.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test2$ drsync ~/test/* .
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test2$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 sputnik sputnik 0 2005-06-15 02:24 äöü.txt

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test2$ drsync --state-file=drsync ~/test/* .
Executing: rsync --update --existing --rsh=rsh
/home/sputnik/test/äöü.txt .
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test2$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r--  1 sputnik sputnik  0 1970-01-01 12:00 \344\366\374.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 sputnik sputnik  0 2005-06-15 02:24 äöü.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 sputnik sputnik 16 2005-06-15 02:25 drsync

(rsync --verbose does not support localized characters in stable yet,
but it handles them correctly in unstable. So this is definitly a
problem of drsync, not of rsync).

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