Package: reportbug Version: 4.12.6 Severity: important When filing bugeports when some non-ascii locales are in effect - for example, Russian ru_RU.UTF-8 (default for ru), reportbug complains about unicode conversion errors and aborts, like this:
---- cut ---- $ reportbug jabberd14 Warning: no reportbug configuration found. Proceeding in novice mode. Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru>' as your from address. Getting status for jabberd14... [...] (1-12/12) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|?]? Maintainer for jabberd14 is 'Miguel Landaeta <mig...@miguel.cc>'. Looking up dependencies of jabberd14... Getting changed configuration files... *** WARNING: The following configuration files have been modified: /etc/default/jabberd14 Send modified configuration files [Y|n|d|?]? n Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2098, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1045, in main return iface.user_interface() File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1733, in user_interface conftext = conftext + u'%s %s\n' % (f, confinfo[f]) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128) $ echo $LANG ru_RU.UTF-8 ---- cut ---- It works only when explicitly unsetting $LANG. Now, it may be python bug (2.6), and it may be related to #539736 But in any case, the problem makes it difficult to submit _any_ bugreport for a Russian user of Debian Sueeze, -- yes, more experienced users will be able to figure out that it'll work after resetting $LANG, but others wont... That's why Severity is set to important. Thanks! -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-i686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.8.10.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-reportbug 4.12.6 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available) ii debsums 2.0.48+nmu3 tool for verification of installed pn dlocate <none> (no description available) pn emacs22-bin-common | emacs23 <none> (no description available) ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii postfix [postfix] 2.6.5-tls0 Postfix Mail Transfer Agent pn python-gtk2 <none> (no description available) pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available) pn python-urwid <none> (no description available) pn python-vte <none> (no description available) pn xdg-utils <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org