Package: python-stdeb Version: 0.8.2-4 Severity: normal The py2dsc program errors with non-ascii characters. My environment is set up for UTF-8:
$ env | grep LC LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8 LC_MONETARY=en_GB.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8 LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 And my terminal (gnome-terminal) has character encoding set to "Unicode (UTF-8)" Showing the error: $ py2dsc -m 'Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com>' serpent-1.8.tar.gz -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- running the following command in directory: deb_dist/tmp_py2dsc/serpent-1.8 /usr/bin/python setup.py --command-packages stdeb.command sdist_dsc --dist-dir=/home/carandraug/dev/debian/deb_dist --use-premade-distfile=/home/carandraug/dev/debian/serpent-1.8.tar.gz --maintainer=Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- running sdist_dsc running egg_info writing serpent.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing top-level names to serpent.egg-info/top_level.txt writing dependency_links to serpent.egg-info/dependency_links.txt reading manifest file 'serpent.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' writing manifest file 'serpent.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 164, in <module> "Topic :: Software Development" File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/stdeb/command/sdist_dsc.py", line 141, in run remove_expanded_source_dir=self.remove_expanded_source_dir, File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 1166, in build_dsc -- %(maintainer)s %(date822)s\n"""%debinfo.__dict__) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 104: ordinal not in range(128) ERROR running: /usr/bin/python setup.py --command-packages stdeb.command sdist_dsc --dist-dir=/home/carandraug/dev/debian/deb_dist --use-premade-distfile=/home/carandraug/dev/debian/serpent-1.8.tar.gz --maintainer=Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com> ERROR in deb_dist/tmp_py2dsc/serpent-1.8 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages python-stdeb depends on: ii debhelper 9.20141022 ii python 2.7.8-2 ii python-requests 2.4.3-4 ii python-setuptools 5.5.1-1 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages python-stdeb recommends: ii apt-file 2.5.4 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.23 ii python-all 2.7.8-2 Versions of packages python-stdeb suggests: pn python-all-dev <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org