I think it's fair to call this Critical since SRU releases generally are currently blocked by this. Looking at the definition, "Severely affects applications beyond the package responsible for the root cause" also applies.
** Changed in: python3-defaults (Ubuntu) Importance: High => Critical -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python3-defaults in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2075337 Title: py3clean fails when using alternate character set Status in python3-defaults package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: We noticed this in bug 2060769 but think it is a separate issue. dh_python3 is putting a py3clean invocation into package prerm maintainer scripts. When that runs, it explodes if the system character set is for example ISO-8859-1. This appears to affect every package for which dh_python3 has inserted a call to py3clean into the package prerm. python3-minimal 3.12.3-0ubuntu1 In this reproducer, cloud-init is at 24.1.3-0ubuntu3.3. Steps to reproduce: $ lxc launch ubuntu:noble rbasak-pro-l8n $ lxc shell rbasak-pro-l8n # locale-gen fr_FR Generating locales (this might take a while)... fr_FR.ISO-8859-1... done Generation complete. # update-locale LANG=fr_FR # exit # adjust terminal to ISO-8859-1 $ lxc shell rbasak-pro-l8n # apt update && apt install --reinstall cloud-init Expected results: success Actual results: Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait Lecture des informations d'état... Fait 0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 1 réinstallés, 0 à enlever et 5 non mis à jour. Il est nécessaire de prendre 598 ko dans les archives. Après cette opération, 0 o d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés. Réception de :1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 cloud-init all 24.1.3-0ubuntu3.3 [598 kB] 598 ko réceptionnés en 1s (926 ko/s) Préconfiguration des paquets... (Lecture de la base de données... 34406 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.) Préparation du dépaquetage de .../cloud-init_24.1.3-0ubuntu3.3_all.deb ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 210, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 196, in main pfiles = set(dpf.from_package(options.package)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/files.py", line 54, in from_package stdout = str(stdout, 'utf-8') ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 2417: invalid continuation byte dpkg: avertissement: le sous-processus ancien paquet cloud-init script pre-removal a renvoyé un état de sortie d'erreur 1 dpkg: tentative d'exécution du script du nouveau paquet à la place... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 210, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 196, in main pfiles = set(dpf.from_package(options.package)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/files.py", line 54, in from_package stdout = str(stdout, 'utf-8') ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 2417: invalid continuation byte dpkg: erreur de traitement de l'archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cloud-init_24.1.3-0ubuntu3.3_all.deb (--unpack) : le sous-processus nouveau cloud-init paquet pre-removal script a renvoyé un état de sortie d'erreur 1 dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 323, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 302, in main compile(files, versions, File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 185, in compile for fn, versions_to_compile in filter_files(files, e_patterns, versions): File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 128, in filter_files for fpath in files: File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/files.py", line 71, in filter_public for fn in files: File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/files.py", line 54, in from_package stdout = str(stdout, 'utf-8') ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 2417: invalid continuation byte dpkg: erreur lors du nettoyage: le sous-processus paquet cloud-init script post-installation installé a renvoyé un état de sortie d'erreur 1 Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution : /var/cache/apt/archives/cloud-init_24.1.3-0ubuntu3.3_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3-defaults/+bug/2075337/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
