[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#866547: src:python-biomaj3: FTBFS with python3.6 as a supported version

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: retitle -1 python-biomaj3 encoding issue during build
Control: tags -1 patch fixed-upstream

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:35:46PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Package: src:python-biomaj3
> Version: 3.0.20-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> Now FTBFS.  See attached log.
> 
> : 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

That's actually unrelated to python3.6 - it already failed earlier with 
python3.5 in reproducible builds and still builds for me with python3.6
in current unstable.

Upstream fix, also attached:
https://github.com/genouest/biomaj/commit/ad924e3306b6396aaca8741f6f016cc81c68d081

> Scott K

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Adrian

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