Bug#577670: software-properties-kde: Crash at launch with error "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported"

[Jeffrey G Thomas]

Subject: software-properties-kde: Crash at launch with error "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported"
Package: software-properties-kde
Version: 0.60.debian-1.1
Severity: important
Tags: sid

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When trying to run 'software-properties-kde' and also 'kdesudo software-properties-kde' the app crashes immediately upon startup with this backtrace:
"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-properties-kde", line 92, in <module>
    app = SoftwarePropertiesKDE(datadir=data_dir, options=options, file=file)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/softwareproperties/kde/SoftwarePropertiesKDE.py", line 108, in __init__
    self.init_distro()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/softwareproperties/kde/SoftwarePropertiesKDE.py", line 225, in init_distro
    self.userinterface.label_updates.setText(unicode(text, 'UTF-8'))
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
"

I was told that I need this app to run the application 'update-notifier', which seems to be GNOME but I was told would run on KDE as well.  Running KDE 4.3.4 on Sid.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages software-properties-kde depends on:
ii  python                   2.5.4-9         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-qt4               4.7.2-1         Python bindings for Qt4
ii  python-software-properti 0.60.debian-1.1 manage the repositories that you i
ii  python-support           1.0.7           automated rebuilding support for P

software-properties-kde recommends no packages.

software-properties-kde suggests no packages.

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