Package: git-buildpackage
Version: 0.9.30
When trying to convert all the snapshoted versions of multimail to a git
repository using gbp import-dscs, I get this error:
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/pere/src/debian/multimail-salsa/.git/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gbp", line 149, in <module>
sys.exit(supercommand())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/gbp", line 145, in supercommand
return module.main(args)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gbp/scripts/import_dscs.py", line 153,
in main
dscs.append(DscFile.parse(arg))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gbp/deb/dscfile.py", line 141, in parse
dsc = cls(filename)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gbp/deb/dscfile.py", line 61, in __init__
for line in f:
File "<frozen codecs>", line 322, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 458:
invalid start byte
Tracking down the cause, it is this line in multimail_0.43-1.dsc:
Comment: F<F6>r information se http://www.gnupg.org/
The <F6> is the ISO-8859-1 character ö. I manged to get a slightly more
informative error by adjusting dscfile.py like this, but I suspect a
proper fix is to teach dscfile to not demand UTF-8 in dsc files.
--- /tmp/dscfile.py 2024-06-02 10:04:39.056375066 +0200
+++ /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gbp/deb/dscfile.py 2024-06-02
10:05:24.920896575 +0200
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@
def parse(cls, filename):
try:
dsc = cls(filename)
+ except UnicodeDecodeError as err:
+ raise GbpError("Unicode error reading dsc file: %s" % err)
except IOError as err:
raise GbpError("Error reading dsc file: %s" % err)
return dsc
I managed to work around the problem by editing the .dsc file to replace
the ISO-8859-1 character with the UTF-8 one, and luckily gbp did not
validate signatures. :)
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
