[ubuntu-dev] Bug#691998: TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

[Muhammad Safri Dzalfaiz]

Package: gdebi-kde
Version: 0.8.6
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
Upgrading gdebi package several days ago (if im not mistaken)
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
cant use gdebi since then, have to use dpkg -i
   * What was the outcome of this action?
aragorn at aragorn-1215b ~/Linux $ sudo gdebi-kde
ia32-crossover_11.3.1-1_amd64.deb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gdebi-kde", line 67, in <module>
    help=unicode(_("Run non-interactive (dangerous!)"),"UTF-8"))
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
gdebi shows up and working



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdebi-kde depends on:
ii  gdebi-core       0.8.6
ii  kde-runtime      4:4.8.4-1
ii  kdebase-runtime  4:4.8.4-1
ii  kdesudo          3.4.2.4-1
ii  python           2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-kde4      4:4.8.4-1

Versions of packages gdebi-kde recommends:
ii  shared-mime-info  1.0-1+b1

gdebi-kde suggests no packages.

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