Bug#422604: FTBFS: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

[tony mancill]

Hi Michael,

That's odd, because the package builds fine under a sid pbuilder environment
on my system.  Anyway, I suppose the problem is locale-related and due to
the character embedded in setup.py below:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/sponsor/rpl/rpl-1.5.4$ cat setup.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

from distutils.core import setup

DESC = """Free replacement for rpl (replace strings in files)."""

setup(name='rpl',
          version='1.5.2',
          description=DESC,
          author=u'Göran Weinholt',
          author_email='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
          url='http://packages.debian.org/rpl',
          license='GPL v2 or later',
          scripts=['rpl'])

Since I can't reproduce the build problem here, I'll have to play around
with it to see how best to encode the unicode characters in the author
string.  Kevin, any ideas?

Thanks for the bug report,
tony

Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
> Package: rpl
> Severity: serious
> Justification: policy violation
> 
> hi,
> 
> Lucas has rebuild the archive on i386 and your package Failed to Build
> from Source with the following error:
> 
>  Writing 
> /tmp/buildd/rpl-1.5.4/debian/rpl/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpl-1.5.2.egg-info
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "setup.py", line 15, in ?
>      scripts=['rpl'])
>    File "distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
>    File "distutils/dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
>    File "distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
>    File "distutils/command/install.py", line 523, in run
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
>      del help[cmd]
>    File "distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
>    File "distutils/command/install_egg_info.py", line 43, in run
>    File "distutils/dist.py", line 1089, in write_pkg_file
>  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 
> 9: ordinal not in range(128)
>  make: *** [python-install-py] Error 1
>  pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package
>   
> the full log can be found here:
> 
>  
> http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2007/05/rebuild.sid.i386/rpl_1.5.4_sid32.buildlog
> 
> bye,
>     - michael
> 
> 

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