[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#805078: [Pkg-anonymity-tools] Bug#805078: torbrowser-launcher: Fails to download signature: TypeError: url must be bytes, not unicode

[georg at riseup.net]

(Sorry for missing References: and In-Reply-To: and bad quoting / 
wrapping, shitty webmailer over here.)

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:19:03 +0100 Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> 
wrote:
> On Freitag, 20. November 2015, Julien Aubin wrote:
> > My locale is fr_FR.UTF-8 and my DE is KDE

After updating today I've run into the same problem.
Nothing fancy over here:

$ cat /etc/debian_version
8.2

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Using i3 as a window manager, no KDE or Gnome involved.

After doing rm -rf ~/.cache/torbrowser/ ~/.local/share/torbrowser/ 
~/.config/torbrowser/ the download works again and torbrowser starts 
afterwards.

> I've seen the bug with Gnome. The jenkins tests use no desktop 
> environment,
> just awesome as window manager. It would be interesting to install a 
> base
> jessie system (no gnome, no kde), then install X and awesome and 
> torbrowser-
> launcher from jessie-backports.

I doubt that there is any relation as neither Gnome nor KDE is installed 
on my system.

As at least in my case removing the directories did help, I wonder if 
there is something (old) cached, which triggers this bug, which won't 
happen if one would install torbrowser-launcher in a vanilla chroot / vm 
/ container, with no old code left over.

@Holger: Do you still think, testing for KDE / Gnome involvement still 
makes sense? Is there anything else you could think of? If so, let me 
know, I'm able to test.

Cheers,
Georg