requestsync crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in edit_report()

[Jonathan Thomas]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

This crash occurred after I responded "yes" to "Do you want to edit the report [y/N]?" after you initially describe the sync rationale. The debian/changelog entry in the sync report did have special characters, which is what I'm assuming that this crash is due to.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 7 09:41:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/requestsync
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.87
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/requestsync qjson lucid
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic-pae
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/requestsync', 'qjson', 'lucid']
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
Tags: lucid
Title: requestsync crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in edit_report()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic-pae i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

revno: 558
committer: Michael Bienia <email address hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Thu 2010-01-07 23:14:24 +0100
message:
  ubuntutools/requestsync/common.py: Decode the edited report file back from
   UTF-8 so it can be encoded again in the next iteration (lp: #504263)

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Fixed in ubuntu-dev-tools 0.88.

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

I just had this same error when sync'ing pyfribidi from Debian (the debian/changelog has some arabic characters) I am using ubuntu-dev-tools 0.96