[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#651437: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa8 in position 41: invalid start byte

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Package: boost1.48
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS


Hi,

Thanks for providing boost 1.48, however I cannot build it on my squeez system, it fails with:

dh_python2
W: dh_python2:94: Python 2.6 should install files in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/. Did you forget "--install-layout=deb"?
W: dh_python2:293: Python 3.x location detected, please use dh_python3: debian/libboost-mpi-python1.48.0/usr/lib/python3.1
dh_python3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dh_python3", line 395, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/dh_python3", line 333, in main
    stats = scan(package, private_dir)
  File "/usr/bin/dh_python3", line 232, in scan
    res = shebang2pyver(fpath)
  File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/tools.py", line 100, in shebang2pyver
    data = fp.read(32)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa8 in position 41: invalid start byte
make[1]: *** [binary-common] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mathieu/tmp/boost1.48-1.48.0'
make: *** [binary-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2


Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash