pbr chokes when description contains unicode characters
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PBR |
Fix Released
|
High
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Herve Beraud |
Bug Description
Reproductible even with the latest pbr: pbr-3.1.1
python3.6 setup.py egg_info [20:41:39]
ERROR:root:Error parsing
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/
attrs = util.cfg_
File "/Users/
kwargs = setup_cfg_
File "/Users/
value += description_
File "/Users/
return codecs.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 33762: ordinal not in range(128)
Changed in pbr: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in pbr: | |
assignee: | Ben Nemec (bnemec) → Herve Beraud (herveberaud) |
This is a serious issue because the chance of having Unicode characters inside description is huge if you append the automatically generated ChangeLog to it.