Bug#891903: diffoscope: programming error in except clause

2018-03-02 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
FTR, this happened also on ubuntu autopkgtest, where the tests fail on armhf, arm64, ppc64el, s390x whilst it passes on x86. http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/diffoscope I planned on debugging that next week (as I need to do it anyway to get it land on ubuntu) On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:57

Bug#891903: diffoscope: programming error in except clause

2018-03-02 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Zbigniew, > I'm trying to update diffoscope to version 91 in Fedora rawhide Thanks for the report! > It seem pretty clear that .decode() is called on a str object, which > cannot work. .. which is odd as this code as been around for ages:

Bug#891903: diffoscope: programming error in except clause

2018-03-02 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Package: diffoscope Version: 91 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I'm trying to update diffoscope to version 91 in Fedora rawhide, and the tests failing for reasons I haven't diagnosed yet (it builds fine locally, but fails on an s390x builder). When the tests are failing, a try..except clause