[Reportbug-maint] Bug#857794: reportbug: crash when encountering some non-ASCII characters

[Dima Kogan]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.5
Severity: grave

Dear Maintainer,

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Hi. I just tried to send an unblock, and reportbug crashed. Session:

    dima at scrawny:~$ sudo apt install reportbug
    ...
    Setting up reportbug (7.1.5) ...


    dima at scrawny:~$ reportbug
    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.
    > release.debian.org
    Are you sure you want to file a bug on release.debian.org? [y|N|q|?]? y
    *** 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 'Dima Kogan <dkogan at debian.org>' as your from address.
    Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
    What sort of request is this? (If none of these things mean anything to you, or you are trying to report a bug
    in an existing package, please press Enter to exit reportbug.)

    1 binnmu      binNMU requests
    2 britney     testing migration script bugs
    3 jessie-pu   jessie proposed updates requests
    4 other       None of the other options
    5 rm          Stable/Testing removal requests
    6 transition  transition tracking
    7 unblock     unblock requests
    8 wheezy-pu   wheezy proposed updates requests

    Choose the request type: 7
    Please enter the name of the package: geda-gaf
    Checking status database...
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2234, in <module>
        main()
      File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1107, in main
        return iface.user_interface()
      File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1698, in user_interface
        self.options.http_proxy)
      File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 540, in special_prompts
        return pkgprompts(package, bts, ui, fromaddr, timeout, online, http_proxy)
      File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/debbugs.py", line 450, in handle_debian_release
        info = utils.get_source_package(package)
      File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 540, in get_source_package
        data = subprocess.getoutput('apt-cache showsrc ' + pipes.quote(package))
      File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 514, in getoutput
        return getstatusoutput(cmd)[1]
      File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 495, in getstatusoutput
        data = check_output(cmd, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, stderr=STDOUT)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 316, in check_output
        **kwargs).stdout
      File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 385, in run
        stdout, stderr = process.communicate(input, timeout=timeout)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 788, in communicate
        stdout = self.stdout.read()
      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 0xd8 in position 327: ordinal not in range(128)


Presumably there's some non-ascii something somewhere that's tripping it
up. It is 100% reproducible, and as you can see I'm using the latest
available reportbug. Thanks.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
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  python3-reportbug  7.1.5
pn  python3:any        <none>

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
pn  debsums                                    <none>
ii  dlocate                                    1.07
ii  emacs24-bin-common                         24.5+1-7.1
ii  exim4                                      4.88-2
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.88-2
ii  file                                       1:5.29-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                             3.22.8-1
pn  gir1.2-vte-2.91                            <none>
ii  gnupg                                      2.1.17-2
ii  python3-gi                                 3.22.0-2
pn  python3-gi-cairo                           <none>
pn  python3-gtkspellcheck                      <none>
pn  python3-urwid                              <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4~beta2
ii  file               1:5.29-2
ii  python3-debian     0.1.29
ii  python3-debianbts  2.6.1
ii  python3-requests   2.12.4-1
pn  python3:any        <none>

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

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