Subject: bug#679: Reportbug refuses to work with non utf8 charset

From: Klaus Ethgen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 14:18:53 +0100

Package: reportbug
Version: 11.5.0devuan1
Severity: normal

I have locales set to de_DE (note, without charset so this ist
latin1/iso-8859-1).

When I want to use reportbug, I get the following error and reportbug
fails:
   UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 3: invalid continuation byte

   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

   SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an exception set

   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

   SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an exception set

   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

   SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an exception set

   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

   SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an exception set

   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

   SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an exception set

   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

   SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an exception set

   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 40, in <module>
       from reportbug import utils
     File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 100, in <module>
       _apt_cache = apt.Cache()
     File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 152, in __init__
       self.open(progress)
     File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 214, in open
       self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress)
   SystemError: <class 'apt_pkg.Cache'> returned a result with an exception set

When I unset all locale settings, reportbug works somehow but wrongly
detect utf-8 charset. (Unset locales are ASCII only! No UTF-8 allowed!)

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="vim"
PAGER="less"
VISUAL="vim"
EMAIL="Klaus Ethgen <[email-masked]>"
DEBFULLNAME="Klaus Ethgen"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/klaus/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "2.20"
mode expert
ui text
realname "Klaus Ethgen"
email "[email-masked]"

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)
Release:	5
Codename:	daedalus ceres
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.16.17 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                2.4.5devuan1
ii  python3            3.10.4-1+b1
ii  python3-reportbug  11.5.0devuan1
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.17

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
ii  debconf                                    1.5.79
ii  debsums                                    3.0.2
ii  dlocate                                    1.10
pn  emacs-bin-common                           <none>
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.95-6
ii  file                                       1:5.41-4
ii  gnupg                                      2.2.35-2
ii  python3-urwid                              2.1.2-2+b1
pn  reportbug-gtk                              <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.3-4.1

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                2.4.5devuan1
ii  file               1:5.41-4
ii  python3            3.10.4-1+b1
ii  python3-apt        2.3.0+b1
ii  python3-debian     0.1.43
ii  python3-debianbts  3.2.1
ii  python3-requests   2.27.1+dfsg-1
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.17

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/reportbug.conf changed:
submit
mutt
no-query-bts
cc
config-files
compress
sign gpg
verify
mode expert
mbox_reader_cmd "mutt -f %s"

-- no debconf information
Gruß
   Klaus
-- 
Klaus Ethgen                                       http://www.ethgen.ch/
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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 20:30:15 +0100

Klaus,

> When I want to use reportbug, I get the following error and reportbug

Isn't this the same as bug #659 you reported?

Mark

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 11:40:54 +0100

Control: forcemerge 659 -1

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 08:34:08PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Am Mi den 25. Mai 2022 um 20:30 schrieb Mark Hindley:
> Ups, yes.

No problems. Merging.

Mark