I ran into the same issue, but upgrading to 0.8.19 didn't fix it. I've put in a new bug for this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/1930640
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to duplicity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1908971 Title: TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object Status in Duplicity: Fix Released Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: user@host:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 20.10 Release: 20.10 user@host:~$ apt-cache policy duplicity duplicity: Installed: 0.8.11.1612-1 Candidate: 0.8.11.1612-1 Version table: *** 0.8.11.1612-1 500 500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status user@host:~$ http_proxy= AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[omitted-key-id] AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[omitted-key] PASSPHRASE=[omitted-encryption-password] duplicity --s3-use-new-style --s3-use-ia --s3-use-multiprocessing --no-print-statistics --verbosity 1 --exclude-device-files --exclude-filelist [omitted-exclude-path] --include-filelist [omitted-include-path] --exclude '**' / [omitted-s3-storage-path] TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): ... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: duplicity 0.8.11.1612-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-33.36-lowlatency 5.8.17 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-33-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Tue Dec 22 16:37:45 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-19 (33 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: duplicity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1908971/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

