Issue #23218 has been updated by Charlie Sharpsteen. Status changed from Unreviewed to Duplicate Keywords set to encoding utf8
Thanks a bunch for the bug report and the pointer to the Debian guidelines. This particular issue is affecting more than just dpkg and we are tracking the issue in ticket #22848. ---------------------------------------- Bug #23218: Fails to parse UTF-8 dpkg-query output when running on non-UTF-8 locale https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/23218#change-101024 * Author: Bernhard Schmidt * Status: Duplicate * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: package * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: 3.3.1 * Keywords: encoding utf8 * Branch: ---------------------------------------- Puppet 3.3 outputs the following error message when running with a non-UTF-8 locale (i.e. C or de_DE) while parsing dpkg-query output Debug: Prefetching apt resources for package Debug: Executing '["/usr/bin/dpkg-query", "-W", "--showformat", "'${Status} ${Package} ${Version} :DESC: ${Description}\\n:DESC:\\n'"]' Error: Could not prefetch package provider 'apt': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII This most likely happens due to the UTF-8 quotation marks in the description of the kbd package on Debian. UTF-8 is legal according to my understanding of Policy 5.1, so Puppet should just cope with it. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724645 for more information -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
