reportbug crashed with TypeError in _uc(): coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found

[Luke Faraone]

Occurs when querying the status database when reporting a bug.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: reportbug 6.6.3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-13.14-generic 3.18.5
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.16.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Feb 26 23:45:50 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/reportbug
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-18 (711 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130214)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/reportbug --bts=debian wnpp
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/reportbug', 'wnpp']
SourcePackage: reportbug
Title: reportbug crashed with TypeError in _uc(): coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip fuse kvm libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

Reassign to debianbts, where the actual exception occurred.

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

Culprit bug is apparently https://bugs.debian.org/741653 , which in fact has an owner of "-1". Le sigh.