[Debian-med-packaging] python-csb: Please help: Clean target throws UnicodeDecodeError

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 13/11/17 07:41, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade python-csb to the new upstream version (in
> Git[1]).  If I try to build it I get:
> 
> 
> gbp:info: Building with (cowbuilder) for sid
> gbp:info: Tarballs 'python-csb_1.2.5+dfsg.orig.tar.gz' not found at '../tarballs/'
> gbp:info: Creating /home/andreas/debian-maintain/alioth/debian-med_git/build-area/python-csb_1.2.5+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> gbp:info: Exporting 'WC' to '/home/andreas/debian-maintain/alioth/debian-med_git/build-area/python-csb-tmp'
> gbp:info: Moving '/home/andreas/debian-maintain/alioth/debian-med_git/build-area/python-csb-tmp' to '/home/andreas/debian-maintain/alioth/debian-med_git/build-area/python-csb-1.2.5+dfsg'
> I: using cowbuilder as pbuilder
> dpkg-source: info: applying exclude_online_tests.patch
> dpkg-source: info: applying reproducible.patch
> dh clean --with python2,python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
>     debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/andreas/debian-maintain/alioth/debian-med_git/build-area/python-csb-1.2.5+dfsg'
> dh_auto_clean
> I: pybuild base:184: python2.7 setup.py clean
> running clean
> removing '/home/andreas/debian-maintain/alioth/debian-med_git/build-area/python-csb-1.2.5+dfsg/.pybuild/pythonX.Y_2.7/build' (and everything under it)
> 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64' does not exist -- can't clean it
> 'build/scripts-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it
> I: pybuild base:184: python3.6 setup.py clean
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "setup.py", line 8, in <module>
>      __doc__ = open('README.rst').read()
>    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
>      return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 4205: ordinal not in range(128)
> E: pybuild pybuild:283: clean: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python3.6 setup.py clean
> dh_auto_clean: pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 3.6 returned exit code 13
> debian/rules:21: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_clean' failed
> 
> 
> Any idea how to fix this?

In the preamble of `setup.py` add:

```
from io import open
```

Then replace subsequent calls to `open` in the file with:

```
open(..., encoding="utf-8")
```

Worth forwarding the patch upstream.

Ghis