[Bug 495951] Re: popcon.ubuntu.com: invalid package names in all-popcon-results.txt.gz

[Brian Murray]

** Changed in: popularity-contest (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: popularity-contest (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  popcon.ubuntu.com: invalid package names in all-popcon-results.txt.gz

Status in Ubuntu Website Product:
  Invalid
Status in “popularity-contest” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi,

  the popularity contest results that can be obtained from [1] contain
  invalid package names:

      % zgrep texlive-lang-norw all-popcon-results.txt.gz
      Package: texlive-lang-norwegiant8,��▒i�d�6!Eԍ     0     1     0     0
      Package: texlive-lang-norwegian           322 23930   898  8008

  There are also some package names that contain slashes.  This also
  should not happen.

  It would be nice, if there was a basic check for valid names (e.g.
  only characters from [a-zA-Z0-9.-+] as documented in [2]).

  Regards,
  Ansgar

  [1] http://popcon.ubuntu.com/all-popcon-results.txt.gz
  [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Source