Bug#979696: Bug#979695: Bug in Package reportbug

[2704839 at gmx.de]

Hello!

Here my tests:

sudo apt-get check 
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.       
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig

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ydna at debian:~$ apt-cache show reportbug
Package: reportbug
Version: 7.9.0
Installed-Size: 256
Maintainer: Reportbug Maintainers <debian-reportbug at lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: python3:any, apt, python3-reportbug (= 7.9.0), sensible-utils
Suggests: default-mta | postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent, gnupg | pgp, debconf-utils (>> 1.1.0), debsums (>= 2.0.47), file (>> 1.30), dlocate, python3-urwid, reportbug-gtk (= 7.9.0), xdg-utils, emacs-bin-common, claws-mail (>= 3.8.0)
Description-en: reports bugs in the Debian distribution
 reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian
 and derived distributions relatively painless.  Its features include:
 .
  * Integration with many mail user agents.
  * Access to outstanding bug reports to make it easier to identify
    whether problems have already been reported.
  * Automatic checking for newer versions of packages.
  * Optional automatic verification of integrity of packages via debsums.
  * Support for following-up on outstanding reports.
  * Optional PGP/GnuPG integration.
 .
 Bug reporting in Debian relies on email; reportbug can use a local
 mail transport agent (like exim or sendmail), submit directly through
 an external mail server, or pass messages to an installed mail user
 agent (e.g., mutt) for submission.
 .
 This package also includes the "querybts" script for browsing the
 Debian bug tracking system.
Description-md5: c8ed153ef173fc9ff78051f21b5e466b
Tag: devel::bugtracker, implemented-in::python, interface::commandline,
 mail::smtp, network::client, protocol::http, protocol::smtp,
 role::program, scope::utility, suite::debian, use::TODO,
 works-with-format::plaintext, works-with::bugs, works-with::mail
Section: utils
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/r/reportbug/reportbug_7.9.0_all.deb
Size: 133904
MD5sum: 447d24268463d930fa29431f81823640
SHA256: df7de180474f59383a48ea29dd086f096f24ac502a05499caf464f3059b59151

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ydna at debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list   

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                   OFFICIAL DEBIAN (TESTING/BULLSEYE) REPOS                    
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free

# deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye/updates main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing-security main contrib non-free

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                      UNOFFICIAL  REPOS                       
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

###### 3rd Party Binary Repos
###Debian Multimedia
# deb https://www.deb-multimedia.org buster main non-free

###Google Chrome Browser
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

###Google Earth
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main

###Virtualbox
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian buster contrib

### Signal Messenger
deb https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main

### experimental
#deb  http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian experimental main non-free contrib

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ydna at debian:~$ sudo apt-cache gencaches 
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig

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gencaches did not solve my problem:


ydna at debian:~$ reportbug 
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 3: invalid continuation byte

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an error set

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an error set

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an error set

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

SystemError: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> returned a result with an error set

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 44, in <module>
    from reportbug import utils
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 108, in <module>
    _apt_cache = apt.Cache()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 152, in __init__
    self.open(progress)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 214, in open
    self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress)
SystemError: <class 'apt_pkg.Cache'> returned a result with an error set

...

regards