FWIW, http://paste.ubuntu.com/23275209/ (a short Python 3 script) makes me fairly sure that everything in netaddr's oui.txt is UTF-8. The script tries to guess the encoding of each entry using chardet, ignores those guessed as ASCII or UTF-8, then prints each entry after being decoded using the guessed encoding and again using UTF-8. The UTF-8 result always appears to be the better choice: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23275206/.
I mention this because it means that an upstream fix is probably easy, and because we may be able to monkeypatch something in the meantime. I do think the defensive approach you've taken in lp:~mpontillo/maas /netaddr-assumes-mac-oui-ascii--bug-1628761 is the right one for now though. Of course, the example in the bug description is an exception to the rule: I can't find anything to decode that and produce something reasonable, though UTF-8 does at least offer a non-crashing option. I suspect it's been mangled, maybe by copy-and-paste at some indeterminate time in the past, and the original is now as good as unrecoverable from oui.txt. Similar corruption appears in the oui.txt that the ieee-data package installs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1628761 Title: [2.1] netaddr assumes MAC OUI is ascii To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1628761/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
