Comment 1 for bug 1905634

I was curious about whether or not this was still necessary as bug 1892879 has been resolved now. However, one still needs to manually install python-ubuntutools to be able to test sbuild-launchpad-chroot and then it still fails.

bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ sudo sbuild-launchpad-chroot create -n bionic -s bionic -a $(dpkg --print-architecture)
[bionic] Creating config
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sbuild-launchpad-chroot", line 376, in <module>
    args.func(args)
  File "/usr/bin/sbuild-launchpad-chroot", line 67, in create_chroot
    host_arch = host_architecture()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutools/misc.py", line 96, in host_architecture
    encoding='utf-8').strip()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 216, in check_output
    process = Popen(stdout=PIPE, *popenargs, **kwargs)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'encoding'

So this SRU is still necessary.