[Openstack-devel] Bug#725550: python-falcon: FTBFS: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 586: ordinal not in range(128)

[David Suárez]

Source: python-falcon
Version: 0.1.7-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20131006 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):
> running install_egg_info
> Copying falcon.egg-info to /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/python-falcon/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/falcon-0.1.7.egg-info
> running install_scripts
> Installing falcon-bench script to /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/python-falcon/usr/bin
> set -e && for pyvers in 3.3; do \
> 		python$pyvers setup.py install --install-layout=deb \
> 			--root /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/python3-falcon; \
> 	done
> 
> WARNING: Cython not installed. Falcon modules WILL NOT be compiled with Cython.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 56, in <module>
>     long_description=open('README.rst', 'r').read(),
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.3/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
>     return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 586: ordinal not in range(128)
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/10/06/python-falcon_0.1.7-1_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.