[Icedove] UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 333: invalid start byte

Jakub Wilk jwilk at debian.org
Sat Jul 23 13:33:23 UTC 2016


* Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert at t-online.de>, 2016-07-23, 10:52:
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 671, in main
>>    process_actions()
>>  File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 607, in process_actions
>>    tests_tree = build_source(kind, arg, built_binaries)
>>  File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 352, in build_source
>>    (testpkg_name, testpkg_version, _) = f.readline().split(' ', 2)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
>>    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
>>UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 333: invalid start byte
>>+ EXIT=20
>>+ tar -caf /build/autopkgtest.tar.gz /build/autopkgtest.out
>>tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
>>+ exit 20
>
>The above output is created with the current head of the master branch 
>for Icedove
>https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mozilla/icedove.git/commit/?id=7dc0588f3ca3b2107fb2044058a05c07584a8f59
>
>But this looks like a UTF-8 problem?

Your debian/changelog is not encoded in UTF-8, which is violation of 
Policy §4.4:

$ isutf8 debian/changelog
debian/changelog: line 3, char 1, byte offset 12: invalid UTF-8 code

-- 
Jakub Wilk



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