doesn't handle non-ascii characters in update information
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
packagekit (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
I get the following error when attempting to use PackageKit-gnome to update my system
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 544: ordinal not in range(128)
File : /usr/share/
main()
File : /usr/share/
run(args, options.single)
File : /usr/share/
backend.
File : /usr/lib/
self.
File : /usr/lib/
self.
File : /usr/share/
updated)
File : /usr/lib/
print >> sys.stdout, "updatedetail\
This is on x86_64 running Karmic
david@dawkins:~$ apt-cache policy packagekit packagekit-
packagekit:
Installeret: 0.4.8-0ubuntu3
Kandidat: 0.4.8-0ubuntu3
Versionstabel:
*** 0.4.8-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
packagekit-
Installeret: 0.4.8-0ubuntu3
Kandidat: 0.4.8-0ubuntu3
Versionstabel:
*** 0.4.8-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Related branches
summary: |
- spews error when attempting update + doesn't handle non-ascii characters in update information |
Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
This bug was fixed in the package packagekit - 0.4.9+20090825- 0ubuntu1
--------------- 20090825- 0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
packagekit (0.4.9+
* New upstream snapshot provding a lot of APT backend improvements: packages_ in_conffile (Merged upstream) debfile: Convert the path of the local file which libpackagekit- qt-dev. install: Fix install location of CMake module.
- Allow to install updates which require the installation of additional
packages. Updates depending on the removal of a package are still
blocked (LP: #342671, LP: #374011, LP: #374011)
- Warn about the installation of untrusted package (LP: #256245)
- Don't crash in APT post update hook if system D-Bus daemon isn't
running (LP: #388623)
- Don't try to estimate a download progress during cache updating, since
APT reports only a forth- and backwards running progress. (LP: #348053)
- Support for python-apt 0.7.12 (LP: #415993)
- Translated package descriptions
* debian/patches:
- Remove ignore_
- Remove fix_typo (Merged upstream)
- Add fix_unicode: Handle the encoding messages via stdin/stdout correctly
(LP: #396513)
- Add fix_unicode_
should be installed to the correct encoding (LP: #347327)
* debian/
Thanks to Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik (LP: #345706)
* debian/control: Fix spelling of Qt. Thanks to Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
(LP: #378419)
-- Sebastian Heinlein <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:03:26 +0200