[Reportbug-maint] Bug#848729: fails with UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 4341: invalid start byte

[Sven Hartge]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.1
Severity: important

Hi!

While trying to report a bug on the package netdata, reportbug 7.1.1
breaks with an UnicodeDecodeError:

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oweh at ds9:~$ reportbug netdata
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

Using 'Sven Hartge <sven at svenhartge.de>' as your from address.
Getting status for netdata...
Verifying package integrity...
Checking for newer versions at madison, incoming.debian.org and http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Querying Debian BTS for reports on netdata (source)...
3 bug reports found:

Bugs with severity serious
  1) #848351  FTBFS building architecture-independent only
Bugs with severity important
  2) #848311  new upstream (1.4.0)  [RESOLVED]
Bugs with severity normal
  3) #848642  adjust OOM score
(3-3/3) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|e|?]? n
Maintainer for netdata is 'Lennart Weller <lhw at ring0.de>'.
Looking up dependencies of netdata...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2233, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1107, in main
    return iface.user_interface()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1775, in user_interface
    utils.get_dependency_info(package, recommends, "recommends") +
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 662, in get_dependency_info
    for info in get_package_info(dependencies):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 597, in get_package_info
    for p in packinfo:
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 474, in __next__
    line = self.fp.readline()
  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 0xa3 in position 4341: invalid start byte
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Grüße,
Sven.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.4~beta2
ii  python-reportbug  6.6.6
pn  python:any        <none>

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
ii  debconf-utils                              1.5.59
ii  debsums                                    2.1.3
ii  dlocate                                    1.07
pn  emacs23-bin-common | emacs24-bin-common    <none>
ii  exim4                                      4.88~RC6-1
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.88~RC6-1
ii  file                                       1:5.29-2
ii  gnupg                                      2.1.16-3
ii  pgp                                        2.6.3a-9
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-5.1
pn  python-gtkspellcheck                       <none>
pn  python-urwid                               <none>
pn  python-vte                                 <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.4~beta2
ii  file              1:5.29-2
ii  python-debian     0.1.29
ii  python-debianbts  2.6.1
pn  python:any        <none>

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

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