Bug#861731: hplip - UnicodeDecodeError in /usr/share/hplip/base/sixext.py, impossible to print certain files

[Georges Toth <georges@trypill.org>]

Dear OdyX,

Thank you very much, that is highly appreciated!

Hopefully it will land in stretch :-)


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regards,
Georges Toth

On 2017-05-04 18:49, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Control: tags -1 +patch +pending
>
> Dear Georges,
>
> Le mercredi, 3 mai 2017, 11.24:31 h CEST Georges Toth a écrit :
> >    * What led up to the situation?
> >    Trying to print a document with non ASCII characters in its title.
> >    This led to a UnicodeDecodeError:
> >  (…)
> >    Manually fix "/usr/share/hplip/base/sixext.py" by applying the 
> > patch
> >    proposed in "https://launchpadlibrarian.net/213208457/sixext.patch";
>
> Thanks for the bugreport and the link to the patch.
>
> I have therefore committed the attached patch to the packaging 
> repository, and
> have asked the Release Team for their opinion on the opportunity to 
> upload
> this to unstable (towards stretch).