Package: mozilla-devscripts Version: 0.51 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
when trying to rebuild mozilla-noscript (actually, preparing a backport),
I got an error:
| dh binary --with webext
| dh_testroot
| dh_prep
| dh_install
| dh_webext
| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "/usr/bin/dh_webext", line 217, in <module>
| sys.exit(install_webext(*sys.argv[1:]))
| File "/usr/bin/dh_webext", line 144, in install_webext
| packages = args.packages or get_all_packages()
| File "/usr/bin/dh_webext", line 73, in get_all_packages
| lines = open("debian/control").readlines()
| File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
| return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
| UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 210:
ordinal not in range(128)
| make: *** [debian/rules:4: binary] Error 1
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary subprocess returned
exit status 2
Turns out that package's debian/control contains utf-8 sequences but
dh_webext cannot deal with it with when LANG is set to e.g. "C". As far
as I can tell, sbuild does this by default.
Trivial reproducer using the mozilla-noscript source (version 10.1.9.6-1):
( export LANG=C ; dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -sa -rfakeroot )
Using "en_US.UTF-8" instead makes the build succeed.
The patch below, mostly taken from reportbug, solved the issue but my
Python foo isn't good enough yet to judge its quality.
Regards,
Christoph
--- /tmp/dh_webext 2018-09-23 23:28:42.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/bin/dh_webext 2018-09-24 20:26:56.531677978 +0200
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
import argparse
import datetime
import json
+import locale
import os
import shlex
import subprocess
@@ -214,4 +215,9 @@
return 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
+ try:
+ locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
+ except locale.Error as x:
+ print('*** Warning:', x, file=sys.stderr)
+
sys.exit(install_webext(*sys.argv[1:]))
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.18.6 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages mozilla-devscripts depends on:
ii perl 5.26.2-7
ii python 2.7.15-3
ii python-librdf 1.0.17.1+dfsg-1.3+b5
ii python3 3.6.6-1
ii unzip 6.0-21
ii zip 3.0-11+b1
mozilla-devscripts recommends no packages.
mozilla-devscripts suggests no packages.
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