Comment 6 for bug 1812232

This isn't a regression in disco as the same error occurs with the version of the package in the release pocket for disco.

[ 9:53AM 10159 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:~ ]
 $ pastebinit -b paste.openstack.org -i /tmp/test.txt
/usr/bin/pastebinit:42: DeprecationWarning: dist() and linux_distribution() functions are deprecated in Python 3.5
  release = platform.linux_distribution()[0].lower()
/usr/bin/pastebinit:413: DeprecationWarning: pasteURLopener style of invoking requests is deprecated. Use newer urlopen functions/methods
  url_opener = pasteURLopener()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 417, in <module>
    params = json.dumps(params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
    return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode
    chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode
    return _iterencode(o, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/encoder.py", line 179, in default
    raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.__class__.__name__} '
TypeError: Object of type bytes is not JSON serializable
[ 9:54AM 10162 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:~ ]
 $ apt-cache policy pastebinit
pastebinit:
  Installed: 1.5-2
  Candidate: 1.5-2
  Version table:
 *** 1.5-2 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu disco/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu disco/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status