[Reportbug-maint] Bug#849358: reportbug: crash with character set is us-ascii

[Boyuan Yang]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.1
Severity: important

As reported in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848655#31,
I think we need a separate bug number.

Detailed output: (same for using LC_ALL=C LANG=C reportbug --ui=text)

% LC_ALL=C LANG=POSIX reportbug --ui=text
Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or 
type 'other' to
report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug is in, 
please contact
debian-user at lists.debian.org for assistance.
> reportbug
*** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the 
submitter).
Detected character set: us-ascii
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

Using 'Boyuan Yang <073plan at gmail.com>' as your from address.
Getting status for reportbug...
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 reportbug (source)...
197 bug reports found:

Bugs with severity grave
    1) #846657  ImportError: No module named 'requests'  [RESOLVED]
Bugs with severity important
    2) #532150  reportbug: [regression] no longer supports custom mua commands
    3) #564112  Checking status of source packages with many binaries can be 
slow
    4) #709862  reportbug: GTK interface crashes on continue from package 
selection
    5) #711404  reportbug's GTK interface crashes if spelling dictionaries for 
the current loca
    6) #717563  reportbug: web access thru proxy not available
    7) #840003  reportbug: wrong reporting about bug
    8) #846639  reportbug: [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated  
[RESOLVED]
    9) #848208  GUI segfaults when trying to collect system information
   10) #848655  reportbug crashes with error "TypeError: * wants int"
   11) #848692  reportbug fails with punctuation in name
   12) #848729  fails with UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 
0xa3 in position
   13) #849124  Reportbug 7.1.1 doesnt start (ValueError: Namespace Vte not 
available + another
   14) #849243  reportbug: TypeError: * wants int
(2-14/197) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|b|m|r|q|s|f|e|?]? s
Maintainer for reportbug is 'Reportbug Maintainers <reportbug-
maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>'.
Looking up dependencies of reportbug...
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/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 4428: 
ordinal not in range(128)
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