[Reportbug-maint] Bug#612712: reportbug complains about unicode conversion error

[paul]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.4.3
Followup-For: Bug #612712

Hi, 

the problem still happens with latest sid version (6.4.3) and
$LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

~% reportbug 
Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or
type 'other' to report a more general problem.
> shorewall
*** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter).
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

Using 'paul <paul at ezvan.fr>' as your from address.
Getting status for shorewall...
Checking for newer versions at madison...
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Querying Debian BTS for reports on shorewall (source)...
2 bug reports found:

Bugs with severity normal
  1) #681229  shorewall: Incorrect kernel messages marking

Bugs with severity wishlist
  2) #588349  shorewall: tcpri ports
(1-2/2) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|e|?]? n
Maintainer for shorewall is 'Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto at connexer.com>'.
Looking up dependencies of shorewall...
Getting changed configuration files...
*** WARNING: The following configuration files have been modified:
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf /etc/default/shorewall
/etc/shorewall/interfaces /etc/shorewall/rules /etc/shorewall/policy
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses /etc/shorewall/tcdevices /etc/shorewall/zones
/etc/shorewall/masq /etc/shorewall/routestopped Send modified configuration
files [Y|n|d|?]? n
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2206, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1080, in main
    return iface.user_interface()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1819, in user_interface
    conftext = conftext + u'%s %s\n' % (f, confinfo[f])
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 32: ordinal not in range(128)
zsh: exit 1     reportbug


-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="vim"
VISUAL="vim"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/paul/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.12.6"
mode standard
ui text
email "paul at ezvan.fr"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.2
ii  python            2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-reportbug  6.4.3

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                               <none>
pn  debconf-utils                            <none>
pn  debsums                                  <none>
pn  dlocate                                  <none>
pn  emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common  <none>
ii  file                                     5.11-2
ii  gnupg                                    1.4.12-4+b1
pn  python-gtk2                              <none>
pn  python-gtkspell                          <none>
pn  python-urwid                             <none>
pn  python-vte                               <none>
ii  ssmtp [mail-transport-agent]             2.64-7
pn  xdg-utils                                <none>

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.2
ii  python            2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-debian     0.1.21
ii  python-debianbts  1.11
ii  python-support    1.0.15

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information