[lucid] requestsync bails attempting to parse the changelog for haskell-src-exts from Debian unstable main (1.3.0-1)

[Daniel T Chen]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

...stsync -dunstable --lp haskell-src-exts lucid <
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/requestsync", line 199, in <module>
    report += changelog
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 214: ordinal not in range(128)

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Fixed in revision 545.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.86

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.86) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Emmet Hikory ]
  * mk-sbuild-lv: Add richer support for ports architectures in Ubuntu
  * mk-sbuild-lv: Really use -security for SOURCES_SECURITY_SUITE in Ubuntu

  [ Kumar Appaiah ]
  * submittodebian: if patch is relatively small (shorter than fifty
    lines), display it inline instead of attaching to the report.

  [ Michael Bienia ]
  * ubuntutools/requestsync/common.py: convert the changelog into a unicode
    string (lp: #498349)
  * ubuntutools/requestsync/mail.py: rmadison() returns now the most recent
    source line (Closes: #560758)

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * pull-debian-source: Return the most recent source line. Depend on
    libapt-pkg-perl for the Debian version comparison required for this.

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * submittodebian: os.system() doesn't throw exceptions, so attempt a
    'bzr diff' first and check the return value; otherwise we get no output
    at all from submittodebian in the non-bzr case.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:03:56 -0800

[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

Proposed for Karmic SRU.

This problem impedes Lucid developers running Karmic.

[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

This SRU proposal was accidentally filed against the wrong bug. Please disregard the attached patch "Backporting fixes from Lucid..."