Control: severity -1 serious Control: tags -1 patch This bug leaves the gdebi-kde executable completely broken -- it can't even generate help output let alone install packages.
In gdebi-kde, _ is set to the ugettext function rather than gettext ( (as
opposed to gdebi-gtk where it is gettext). The result of
help=unicode(_("Run non-interactive (dangerous!)"),"UTF-8"))
is that unicode is trying to decode a unicode object as UTF-8 rather than a
string. Python can't do that, so you get the reported error.
The attached patch removes what I believe to be the unicode(…, "UTF-8") call.
cheers
Stuart
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diff -Nru gdebi-0.8.6/debian/changelog gdebi-0.8.6+nmu1/debian/changelog
--- gdebi-0.8.6/debian/changelog 2012-10-11 21:07:45.000000000 +0100
+++ gdebi-0.8.6+nmu1/debian/changelog 2012-11-01 09:57:59.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+gdebi (0.8.6+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Don't try to decode a unicode string as UTF-8 in gdeb-kde (Closes: #691998)
+
+ -- Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org> Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:47:13 +0000
+
gdebi (0.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
* gdebi, GDebi/GDebiCli.py:
diff -Nru gdebi-0.8.6/gdebi-kde gdebi-0.8.6+nmu1/gdebi-kde
--- gdebi-0.8.6/gdebi-kde 2012-10-11 20:56:58.000000000 +0100
+++ gdebi-0.8.6+nmu1/gdebi-kde 2012-11-01 09:57:59.000000000 +0000
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
parser.add_option("-n", "--non-interactive",
action="store_true", dest="non_interactive",
default=False,
- help=unicode(_("Run non-interactive (dangerous!)"),"UTF-8"))
+ help=_("Run non-interactive (dangerous!)"))
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
try:
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