Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 3.6
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Apt upgrade leads to
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 243, in <module>
main(config)
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 141, in main
(news, changelog, binnmu) = pkg.extract_changes(config.which, fromversion,
config.reverse)
File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 246, in extract_changes
changelog = reduce(find_first, changelog_filenames +
changelog_filenames_native, None)
File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 243, in <lambda>
find_first = lambda acc, fname: acc or
self._read_changelog(os.path.join(tempdir, fname), since_version, reverse)
File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 295, in _read_changelog
entries, urgency = ChangelogParser().parse(fd, since_version)
File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 160, in parse
line = line.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
There doesn't seem to be any way around this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on:
ii apt 1.4~beta1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59
ii debianutils 4.8.1
ii python3-apt 1.1.0~beta5
pn python3:any <none>
ii ucf 3.0036
apt-listchanges recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests:
ii chromium [www-browser] 55.0.2883.75-1
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.88~RC5-1
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.5.1esr-1
ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:16.08.3-1
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:16.08.3-1
ii kterm [x-terminal-emulator] 6.2.0-46.2
ii lxterminal [x-terminal-emulator] 0.2.0-1
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.9dev11-1
ii python3-gi 3.22.0-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-33
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 327-1
-- debconf information:
* apt-listchanges/confirm: true
* apt-listchanges/frontend: pager
* apt-listchanges/save-seen: true
* apt-listchanges/email-address: root
* apt-listchanges/which: both
