Package error installing debtags

[Benjamin Mesing]

Hi Rob,

thanks for the information, you should probably file a bug against the
debtags-package.

Regards

Ben

On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 07:53 +1000, rob stone wrote:
> Whilst updating (via synaptic) it fails to complete the installation of
> debtags. If needed I could take a screen shot of the error listing but
> the following is logged in /var/log/messages:-
> 
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: Traceback (most
> recent call last):
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: File
> "/usr/bin/debtags", line 699, in <module>
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: main()
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: File
> "/usr/bin/debtags", line 693, in main
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]:
> sys.exit(action.main(args))
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: File
> "/usr/bin/debtags", line 637, in main
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: for pkg, tags in
> self.tags_from_apt():
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: File
> "/usr/bin/debtags", line 260, in tags_from_apt
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: tags =
> tags_from_apt_record(cand.record)
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: File
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/package.py", line 452, in record
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: return
> Record(self._records.record)
> Aug  8 03:14:54 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: UnicodeDecodeError:
> 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 349: invalid
> continuation byte
> Aug  8 03:15:28 roblaptop synaptic.desktop[14611]: (synaptic:14612):
> GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkAlignment:xscale is deprecated
> and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
> 
> 
> The version of debtags is 2.0+nmu1.
> 
> uname -a
> Linux roblaptop 4.0.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.0.8-2 (2015-07-22) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Rob
> 
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