Control: reassign 816726 python-pkg-resources Hi, Alex and others.
On Mar 04 2016, Alex Volkov wrote: > Package: youtube-dl > Version: 2016.02.22-1 > Severity: grave > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > > Gives me this in response to "youtube-dl --version" > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 5, in <module> > from pkg_resources import load_entry_point > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line > 3138, in <module> > @_call_aside Since the problem is clearly *not* in youtube-dl, I'm reassigning this bug to python-pkg-resources. Furthermore, to the python-pkg-resources people, I don't see this problem with python-pkg-resources from sid (version 20.1.1-1). The only difference that we have in our systems is that you are using version 18.8-1. (...) > return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name)) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line > 2025, in get_metadata > metadata = f.read() > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 314, in decode > (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 147: > invalid start byte I'm keeping the lines above for the convenience of the python-pkg-resources people. As a wild guess, perhaps the original poster has a problem with locales? The full log is, of course, in the original e-mail. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br