Meld 3.11.0 completely broken - please sync meld 3.11.1-1 from Debian experimental

[Heiko Adams]

Meld 3.11 from Ubuntu Utopic and trusty's gnome3-staging ppa is completely broken because previous compares are not loading and comparing 2 files brings just a blank window
Latest meld 3.11.1-1 release from Debian experimental fixes these (and some other) problems, please sync meld from Debian experimental
Full debian/changelog is here:
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/m/meld/meld_3.11.1-1_changelog

[Vsevolod Kukol (v-kukol)]

Meld throws the following traceback to STDERR:

$ meld test1.txt test2.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/task.py", line 110, in iteration
    ret = next(task)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/filediff.py", line 1224, in _set_files_internal
    for i in self._load_files(files, self.textbuffer):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/filediff.py", line 1098, in _load_files
    yield _("[%s] Opening files") % self.label_text
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

[Vsevolod Kukol (v-kukol)]

updating meld to 3.11.1 from git by hand fixes the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

This bug was fixed in the package meld - 3.11.1-1
Sponsored for Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)

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meld (3.11.1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream development release:
    - Features:
      * New (alpha) infrastructure for stand-alone Windows builds
        (Kai Willadsen)
      * Display renames and metadata in Bazaar repositories (Louis des Landes)
      * Improved tab labels in version control comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
      * New merge-order preference to accompany comparison-order (Kai Willadsen)
      * Added a prompt to mark a conflict as resolved from file comparison
        (Kai Willadsen)
    - Fixes:
      * Fix filtering for shallow folder comparisons (Casey)
      * Several install and distribution fixes (Kai Willadsen)
      * Sundry bug fixes (Dominique Leuenberger, Thomas Klausner,
        Louis des Landes, Kai Willadsen)
  * Ship GSettings schema (Closes: #522015)
  * Drop obsolete patch fixing meld's shebang. It is done automatically now.
  * Drop obsoletely recommended gir1.2-gconf-2.0

 -- Balint Reczey <email address hidden> Mon, 26 May 2014 10:25:13 +0700

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Can you please check if the latest upload works fine?

[Vsevolod Kukol (v-kukol)]

It works on trusty (manually installed the deb)! Thanks!