[requestsync] problem with utf8

[Artur Rona]

$ requestsync python-mysqldb
W: Target release missing - assuming saucy
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/requestsync", line 366, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/requestsync", line 319, in main
    changelog = debian_srcpkg.getChangelog(since_version=base_version)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutools/lp/lpapicache.py", line 528, in getChangelog
    for block in Changelog(self._changelog):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debian/changelog.py", line 250, in __init__
    strict=strict)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debian/changelog.py", line 283, in parse_changelog
    file = file.decode(encoding)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 60: invalid start byte

I have filled the bug manually - #bug 1215435

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

please reopen if this problem still exists