wrap-and-sort crashed with TypeError in save(): must be str, not bytes

[Robert Bruce Park]

wrap-and-sort crashed, leaving my debian/control file empty.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: devscripts 2.12.6ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-0.3-generic 3.8.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-0-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 14 13:54:44 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/wrap-and-sort
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-14 (121 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/wrap-and-sort
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort']
SourcePackage: devscripts
Title: wrap-and-sort crashed with TypeError in save(): must be str, not bytes
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-11-14 (60 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom debian-tor dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

This bug is not a duplicate of that other one; I am still experiencing this even with devscripts 2.12.6ubuntu2 installed.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go into any directory containing a debian/ subdirectory,

2. type 'wrap-and-sort'

3. Observe the following traceback:

$ wrap-and-sort
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort", line 227, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort", line 224, in main
    wrap_and_sort(options)
  File "/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort", line 146, in wrap_and_sort
    control.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/devscripts/control.py", line 70, in save
    control_file.write(content.encode("utf-8"))
TypeError: must be str, not bytes

4. Notice that debian/control has become zero-length.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

This looks like a fallout of the Python 3 porting.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package devscripts - 2.12.6ubuntu3

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devscripts (2.12.6ubuntu3) raring; urgency=low

  * Open control file as bytes and write out encoded utf-8. (LP: #1099589).
 -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:04:20 +0000