reassign 693855 python-xdg 0.24-1 retitle 693855 IniFile.parse chokes on bad utf8 thanks
tl;dr for python-xdg maintainers: trying to create a DesktopFile for /usr/share/app-install/desktop/gnome-alsamixer.desktop currently fails throwing UnicodeError; it should probably ignore the offending entries instead. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:18:43AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > libpackagekit-glib2-14, which is pulled in by gnome-settings-daemon. The > fix should be as simple as catching UnicodeDecodeError exceptions and > skipping the file, hopefully that will be simple enough for the release > team to allow the fix into wheezy too. [...] > Versions of packages apt-xapian-index suggests: > ii app-install-data 2012.06.16.1 > ii python-xdg 0.24-1 Hello Paul, thanks for reporting this. However, I cannot reproduce it in wheezy. It looks like it's because you have python-xdg from experimental (wheezy has python-xdg version 0.19-4): the wheezy version doesn't choke on bad UTF8, and in this case it returns the string "Mlangeur de son ALSA pour GNOME" without raising any error. It'd still be a good idea to catch exceptions here, but this is not something that would warrant an update for wheezy. I'm reassigning this bug to python-xdg, though: I reckon it should deal gracefully with incorrect utf8. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>
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