gdebi

No error when calling gdebi-kde with an unsupported file

Bug #316116 reported by David on 2009-01-11

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gdebi	Fix Released	Undecided	Michael Vogt

Bug Description

When I call gdebi-kde with an unsupported file (for example a .rpm file) the main window appears for a few second with a progress bar and then closes. I don't get any feedback what's going wrong.
I'm not sure, but this could also be a translation problem (see the traceback).

./gdebi-kde xxx.rpm
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gdebi-kde", line 102, in <module>
    gdebi = GDebiKDE(datadir=data,options=options,file=afile)
  File "/home/david/test/launchpad/gdebi/GDebi/GDebiKDE.py", line 164, in __init__
    self.open(file)
  File "/home/david/test/launchpad/gdebi/GDebi/GDebiKDE.py", line 179, in open
    res = GDebiCommon.open(self, file)
  File "/home/david/test/launchpad/gdebi/GDebi/GDebiCommon.py", line 79, in open
    self.error_header = _("Could not open '%s'" % os.path.basename(file))
  File "/home/david/test/launchpad/gdebi/GDebi/GDebiCommon.py", line 40, in _
    return unicode(gettext.gettext(str), 'UTF-8')
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported