Bug#1003065: reportbug: crash (exception) on startup with locale de_DE@euro

[Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@web.de>]

control: reassign 1003065 python3-apt


On 03.01.2022 16.10, Adolf Markus Berthold wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 7.10.3+deb11u1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: l10n
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> reportbug (console-version) raises an exception when called with the locale
> de_DE@euro :
> 
> ---------8<------------------------------------------------------------
> :~$ LANG=de_DE@euro reportbug
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 3: invalid continuation byte
> 
> The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
> 
> SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an error set
> 
> The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
> 
> SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an error set
> 
> The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
> 
> SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an error set
> 
> The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
> 
> SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an error set
> 
> The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 44, in <module>
>     from reportbug import utils
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 109, in <module>
>     _apt_cache = apt.Cache()
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 152, in __init__
>     self.open(progress)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 214, in open
>     self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress)
> SystemError: <class 'apt_pkg.Cache'> returned a result with an error set
> ---------8<------------------------------------------------------------


Can reproduce on bullseye and sid, using this sequence:

$ python3
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
'de_DE@euro'
>>> import apt
>>> c = apt.Cache()

Setting LANG=de_DE@euro is not sufficient to trigger the problem, also
make sure LANGUAGE is not set.