[Reproducible-builds] Bug#778641: debbindiff --text crashes for xz-utils with a UnicodeDecodeError

[Helmut Grohne]

Package: debbindiff
Version: 9
User: helmutg at debian.org
Usertags: rebootstrap

Here is a traceback from debbindiff --text when run on xz-utils:

| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "/usr/bin/debbindiff", line 89, in <module>
|     sys.exit(main())
|   File "/usr/bin/debbindiff", line 83, in main
|     output_text(differences, print_func=print_func)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debbindiff/presenters/text.py", line 59, in output_text
|     print_details(difference, print_func)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debbindiff/presenters/text.py", line 51, in print_details
|     print_details(detail, new_print_func)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debbindiff/presenters/text.py", line 51, in print_details
|     print_details(detail, new_print_func)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debbindiff/presenters/text.py", line 51, in print_details
|     print_details(detail, new_print_func)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debbindiff/presenters/text.py", line 48, in print_details
|     print_difference(detail, print_func)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debbindiff/presenters/text.py", line 37, in print_difference
|     print_func("| %s" % line.encode('utf-8'), end='')
| UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)

Please refer to
https://jenkins.debian.net/job/rebootstrap_i386_gcc49_nobiarch_debbindiff/6/console
for more context of the invocation.

Helmut