tags 675618 +pending
thanks
Le samedi, 2 juin 2012 16.31:36, vous avez écrit :
> Package: lsb-release
> Version: 4.1+Debian5
> Severity: normal
>
> lsb_release fails for me with the following error:
>
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 208, in
> parse_apt_policy close_fds=True).communicate()[0].decode('ascii')
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1325:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
> This is due to my personal repo having non-ASCII characters in its
> (UTF-8-encoded) Release file, which shows up in the Apt policy:
>
> $ apt-cache policy | sed -n '34,36p'
> 500 http://www.fbriere.net/debian/ unstable/misc i386 Packages
> release o=Frédéric Brière,a=unstable,n=sid,c=misc
> origin www.fbriere.net
>
>
> I couldn't find any documentation about restricting Release files to
> ASCII (not that it says much, given how undocumented Release files are),
> so I assume that all of Unicode is acceptable in this context.
Indeed.
I have pushed the two following commits to the packaging repository [0]:
3ed2841 Add test case for #675618.
8cdec4e Accept utf-8 in `apt-cache policy` and `dpkg-query` outputs.
It will be part of the next upload, hence +pending.
Cheers, and thanks for your bugreport.
OdyX
[0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/lsb.git
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