Package: drsync Version: 0.4.3-6 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Tags: l10n
*** Please type your report below this line *** -- 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 -- no debconf information 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).