Re: Database issue with libarchive/hurd-i386

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 01:23:57PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 8/15/25 10:33 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > bunk@wuiet:~$ wb info libarchive . hurd-i386
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "/usr/local/bin/wb", line 435, in <module>
> >      main()
> >    File "/usr/local/bin/wb", line 81, in main
> >      do_command(args)
> >    File "/usr/local/bin/wb", line 278, in do_command
> >      info = get_wb_info(pkg, dist, arch)
> >             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >    File "/usr/local/bin/wb", line 374, in get_wb_info
> >      for line in p.stdout:
> >    File "<frozen codecs>", line 322, in decode
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1991: invalid continuation byte
> > bunk@wuiet:~$
> > 
> > 
> > wanna-build=> SELECT * FROM packages_public WHERE package = 'libarchive' AND architecture = 'hurd-i386';
> > ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc3 0x2d
> > wanna-build=>
> 
> Thanks for reporting. old_failed was broken.
>...

Thanks.

Is this a more widespread issue?

wanna-build=> SELECT * FROM packages_public;
ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa7
wanna-build=> 

> Kind regards
> Philipp Kern

cu
Adrian

BTW:
My guesses for cause would be encoding issues with old data,
or the difference between client and server version.