[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#907686: npm2deb: chokes on parsing mocha when locale is C

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2018, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 31 4:57:54 PM IST, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>Package: npm2deb
>Version: 0.2.8-1
>Severity: normal
>
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>Attempting to follow https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Tasks to
>resolve dependencies of node-server, in a limited environment (a
>cowbuilder chroot) with "C" a locale, caused the following failure:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "js_task_edit.py", line 230, in <module>
>    main()
>  File "js_task_edit.py", line 213, in main
>    build_deps = get_builddeps(module_name)
>  File "js_task_edit.py", line 161, in get_builddeps
>    debian = get_debian(dep)
>  File "js_task_edit.py", line 80, in get_debian
>    npm2deb_instance = _Npm2Deb(module_name)
>File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/npm2deb/__init__.py", line 57, in
>__init__
>    self.read_package_info()
>File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/npm2deb/__init__.py", line 363, in
>read_package_info
>    (self.name, self.version))
>  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 517, in getstatusoutput
>data = check_output(cmd, shell=True, universal_newlines=True,
>stderr=STDOUT)
>  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 336, in check_output
>    **kwargs).stdout
>  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 405, in run
>    stdout, stderr = process.communicate(input, timeout=timeout)
>  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 830, in communicate
>    stdout = self.stdout.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 0xc3 in position
>26639: ordinal not in range(128)

See if setting LANG=C.UTF-8 fixes it. If not try LC_ALL=UTF-8.

Some node modules have metadata in Unicode and the locale should have UTF-8 support.
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