Package: python-apt Version: 0.9.3.3 Severity: serious On Sunday, I merged a bug fix from Ubuntu to force /etc/apt/sources.list to be opened with utf-8 encoding. This was a mistake. The patch was broken, and things can fail now for empty entries. It is reverted in git.
I also do not think that hardcoding UTF-8 is a sensible idea. Python 3 by default uses the encoding of the locale it is run in, and that is a much better idea. Of course, there are people who sometimes use the "C" locale (or other locales with different encoding than their main locale) when running tools using python-apt and then complain about failure because python-apt cannot read files encoded in their main locale's encoding. I thus think we should *not* hardcode an UTF-8 encoding in python-apt, and should instead fix applications and users that run things in an environment with a locale different from the normal one. It also matches the behavior of Python itself. PS. I CCed debian-devel@l.d.o for further input on this topic, but I'm not subscribed. So communication should either CC the bug; or if we do not want to spam this, deity@l.d.o or my email. Thank you. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (980, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages python-apt depends on: ii libapt-inst1.5 0.9.16.1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.16.1 ii libc6 2.18-4 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-16 ii libstdc++6 4.8.2-16 ii python 2.7.5-5 ii python-apt-common 0.9.3.3 Versions of packages python-apt recommends: ii iso-codes 3.51-1 ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian12 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 Versions of packages python-apt suggests: ii python-apt-dbg 0.9.3.3 pn python-apt-doc <none> ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3+b1 pn python-vte <none> -- no debconf information -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Please do not top-post if possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
