[Reportbug-maint] Bug#850687: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 3577: ordinal not in range(128)

[Simon Richter]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.2
Severity: important

Hi,

"reportbug binutils" terminates with

(59-68/68) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|e|?]? n
Maintainer for binutils is 'Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>'.
Looking up dependencies of binutils...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2233, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1107, in main
    return iface.user_interface()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1775, in user_interface
    utils.get_dependency_info(package, recommends, "recommends") +
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 657, in get_dependency_info
    for info in get_package_info(dependencies):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 592, in get_package_info
    for p in packinfo:
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 469, in __next__
    line = self.fp.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 3577: ordinal not in range(128)

This appears to be similar but not identical to #848729.

   Simon

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** /home/simon/.reportbugrc:
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.4~beta1
ii  python-reportbug  6.6.6
pn  python:any        <none>

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
pn  debsums                                    <none>
pn  dlocate                                    <none>
pn  emacs23-bin-common | emacs24-bin-common    <none>
ii  exim4                                      4.88~RC5-1
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.88~RC5-1
ii  file                                       1:5.29-1
ii  gnupg                                      2.1.16-2
pn  python-gtk2                                <none>
pn  python-gtkspellcheck                       <none>
pn  python-urwid                               <none>
pn  python-vte                                 <none>
pn  xdg-utils                                  <none>

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.4~beta1
ii  file              1:5.29-1
ii  python-debian     0.1.29
ii  python-debianbts  2.6.1
pn  python:any        <none>

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

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