This bug persists in 2.27.2-0ubuntu3. Line number are slightly different
of course:
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 14: ordinal not
in range(128)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1948, in <module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1945, in main
run(args, options.single)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1907, in run
backend.dispatcher(args)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 636, in
dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 537, in
dispatch_command
self.get_update_detail(package_ids)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 753, in
get_update_detail
updated)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 242, in
update_detail
changelog, state, issued, updated))
Cause of the problem:
For packages without changelogs available (which is the case for PPAs) a
message stating this circumstance is printed instead. This string is
internationalized and may contain non-ascii characters in languages != C. For
example, in de_DE.UTF-8 the "changelog" variable contains 'Die Liste der
\xc3\x84nderungen ist momentan nicht verf\xc3\xbcgbar.' Note that it seems to
be a plain string, not a Unicode string. I traced this down using this simple
patch:
--- /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py.orig 2009-09-07
06:54:18.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py 2009-09-07
07:55:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -236,6 +236,10 @@
@param issued:
@param updated:
'''
+ try:
+ changelog = changelog.encode("ascii", "replace")
+ except UnicodeDecodeError:
+ changelog = repr(changelog)
self._send("updatedetail\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t"
"%s" % (package_id, updates, obsoletes, vendor_url,
bugzilla_url, cve_url, restart, update_text,
--
gdk-update-viewer UnicodeDecodeError
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420683
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