UnicodeDecodeError in lp-project-upload

[James Falcon]

$ lp-project-upload cloud-init 20.4 cloud-init-20.4.tar.gz 21.1 changelog release-notes
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lp-project-upload", line 175, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/lp-project-upload", line 126, in main
    file_content = open(tarball, 'r').read()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

[Dan Watkins (oddbloke)]

Applying the below as quilt patch addressed both this and a related issue locally, meaning I could use this command successfully:

--- a/bin/lp-project-upload
+++ b/bin/lp-project-upload
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
             release = create_release(proj, version)

         # Get the file contents.
- file_content = open(tarball, 'r').read()
+ file_content = open(tarball, 'rb').read()
         # Get the signature, if available.
         signature = tarball + '.asc'
         if not os.path.exists(signature):
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
                 print('gpg failed, aborting', file=sys.stderr)

         if os.path.exists(signature):
- signature_content = open(signature, 'r').read()
+ signature_content = open(signature, 'rb').read()
         else:
             signature_content = None

[Dan Watkins (oddbloke)]

(I see Robie independently reached the same patch as I in the Debian bug.)