Bug#998372: "debsums: can't check debsums file ... (Wide character in subroutine entry)"

[Philipp Marek]

Package: debsums
Version: 3.0.2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: philipp at marek.priv.at

When using debsums, some files (non-ASCII?) can't be checked.

Example:

    $ reportbug debsums
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    Using 'Philipp Marek <philipp at marek.priv.at>' as your from address.
    Getting status for debsums...
    Verifying package integrity...
    There may be a problem with your installation of debsums;
    the following problems were detected by debsums:
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/doc/debsums/NEWS.Debian.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/doc/debsums/changelog.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/de/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/es/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/fr/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/man1/rdebsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/pt/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/ru/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
    debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/sv/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_AT:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages debsums depends on:
ii  libdpkg-perl          1.20.9
ii  libfile-fnmatch-perl  0.02-2+b8
ii  perl                  5.32.1-6
ii  ucf                   3.0043

debsums recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debsums suggests:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.11-4

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/doc/debsums/NEWS.Debian.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/doc/debsums/changelog.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/de/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/es/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/fr/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/man1/rdebsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/pt/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/ru/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)
debsums: can't check debsums file /usr/share/man/sv/man1/debsums.1.gz (Wide character in subroutine entry)