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

[Muhammad Safri Dzalfaiz]

Package: gdebi
Followup-For: Bug #691998

Dear Maintainer,

downgrade it to 0.8.5 make it work again.

I download the older version on
http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/pool/main/g/gdebi/

aragorn at aragorn-1215b ~/Download $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Selecting previously unselected package gdebi.
(Reading database ... 324564 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gdebi (from gdebi_0.8.5_all.deb) ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading gdebi-core from 0.8.6 to 0.8.5
Preparing to replace gdebi-core 0.8.6 (using gdebi-core_0.8.5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gdebi-core ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading gdebi-kde from 0.8.6 to 0.8.5
Preparing to replace gdebi-kde 0.8.6 (using gdebi-kde_0.8.5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gdebi-kde ...
Setting up gdebi-core (0.8.5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up gdebi-kde (0.8.5) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.8.5) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
aragorn at aragorn-1215b ~/Download $



-- 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 depends on:
ii  gdebi-core        0.8.5
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0    3.4.2-4
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.90   1:0.32.2-1
ii  gksu              2.0.2-6
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.4.0-2
ii  python            2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-gi         3.2.2-1

Versions of packages gdebi recommends:
ii  libgtk2-perl      2:1.244-1
ii  shared-mime-info  1.0-1+b1

gdebi suggests no packages.

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