[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#651437: Bug#651437: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa8 in position 41: invalid start byte

[Steve M. Robbins]

severity 651437 normal
thanks

The upload is for "sid"; failing to build on squeeze is not Release Critical.


On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 05:12:21PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Thanks for providing boost 1.48, however I cannot build it on my squeez system, 
> it fails with:
> 
> dh_python2
> W: dh_python2:94: Python 2.6 should install files in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/. Did you forget "--install-layout=deb"?
> W: dh_python2:293: Python 3.x location detected, please use dh_python3: debian/libboost-mpi-python1.48.0/usr/lib/python3.1
> dh_python3
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/dh_python3", line 395, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/dh_python3", line 333, in main
>     stats = scan(package, private_dir)
>   File "/usr/bin/dh_python3", line 232, in scan
>     res = shebang2pyver(fpath)
>   File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/tools.py", line 100, in shebang2pyver
>     data = fp.read(32)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.1/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
>     (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa8 in position 41: invalid start byte

It's not clear this has anything to do with boost; rather, this looks like a bug in "dh_python3".

-Steve
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