Comment 6 for bug 953682

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Jose' Belmar (swizztek-software) wrote : Re: [Bug 953682] Re: apport-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _check_files_md5(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 479: ordinal not in range(128)

On 12-03-22 03:30 PM, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.95-0ubuntu1
>
> ---------------
> apport (1.95-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low
>
> [ Martin Pitt ]
> * New upstream release:
> - apport-gtk, apport-kde: When reporting a "system crash", don't say "...
> of this program version", but "...of this type", as we don't show a
> program version in the initial dialog
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker#error) (LP: #961065)
> - problem_report.py, write_mime(): Do not put a key inline if it is bigger
> than 1 kB, to guard against very long lines. (LP: #957326)
> - etc/cron.daily/apport: Do not remove whoopsie's *.upload* stamps every
> day, only if they are older than a week. whoopsie comes with its own
> cron job which deals with them. Thanks Steve Langasek. (LP: #957102)
> - report.py, mark_ignore(): Fix crash if executable went away underneath
> us. (LP: #961410)
> - apport-gtk: Do not compare current continue button label against a
> translated string. Instead just remember whether or not we can restart
> the application. (LP: #960439)
> - hookutils.py, command_output(): Add option to keep the locale instead of
> disabling it.
> - hookutils.py, command_output(): Actually make the "input" parameter
> work, instead of causing an eternal hang. Add tests for all possible
> modes of operation.
> - hooktuils.py: Change root_command_output() and
> attach_root_command_outputs() to disable translated messages
> (LC_MESSAGES=C) only as part of the command to be run, not already for
> the root prefix command. This will keep the latter (gksu, kdesudo, etc.)
> translated. (LP: #961659)
> - apport-gtk: Cut off text values after 4000 characters, as Gtk's TreeView
> does not get along well with huge values. KDE's copes fine, so continue
> to display the complete value there. (LP: #957062)
> - apport-gtk: Make details window resizable in bug reporting mode.
> - crashdb.py, known(): Check the address signature duplicate database if
> the symbolic signature exists, but did not find any result. (LP: #103083)
> - ui.py: Run anonymization after checking for duplicates, to prevent host
> or user names which look like hex numbers to corrupt the stack trace.
> (LP: #953104)
> - apport-gtk: Require an application to both have TERM and SHELL in its
> environment to consider it a command line application that was started
> by the user. (LP: #962130)
> - backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py, _check_files_md5(): Fix double encoding,
> which caused UnicodeDecodeErrors on non-ASCII characters in an md5sum
> file. (LP: #953682)
> - apport-kde, apport-gtk: Only show "Relaunch" if the report has a
> ProcCmdline, otherwise we cannot restart it. (LP: #956173)
> - apport-gtk, apport-kde: Show the ExecutablePath while we're collecting
> data for the crash report. Thanks Evan Dandrea. (LP: #938707).
> * debian/copyright: Change to copyright format 1.0.
> * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3.
>
> [ Brian Murray ]
> * data/general-hooks/ubuntu.py: use main.log to determine UpgradeStatus not
> apt.log (LP: #886111)
> -- Martin Pitt<email address hidden> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:55:17 +0100
>
> ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
>
that was quick! great work! (y)