[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#871160: python-biomaj3: FTBFS: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1781: ordinal not in range(128)

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: python-biomaj3
Version: 3.0.20-1
Severity: serious
Tags: buster sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170805 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
> dh clean --with python2,python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
>    dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
> I: pybuild base:184: python2.7 setup.py clean 
> running clean
> removing '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/.pybuild/pythonX.Y_2.7/build' (and everything under it)
> 'build/bdist.linux-amd64' does not exist -- can't clean it
> 'build/scripts-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it
> I: pybuild base:184: python3.6 setup.py clean 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 18, in <module>
>     README = f.read()
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
>     return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1781: ordinal not in range(128)
> E: pybuild pybuild:283: clean: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python3.6 setup.py clean 
> dh_auto_clean: pybuild --clean --test-nose -i python{version} -p "3.6 3.5" returned exit code 13
> debian/rules:28: recipe for target 'clean' failed
> make: *** [clean] Error 25

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2017/08/05/python-biomaj3_3.0.20-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.