Bug#495272: deb822 cannot handle unicode fields

[Adeodato Simó]

* Jonny Lamb [Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:02:39 +0100]:

> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:45:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> >   * I can't reproduce the bug with the unpatched version, using my name
> >     in the Maintainer field of the .dsc file

> So, I do not seem to be able to reproduce this bug any more. I am totally
> confused as to what on Earth is going on. I could swear it didn't work
> until I added the patch to deb822.py, and upon testing with different
> conditions many times, it appears to work. However, the same code run by
> someone else seems intermittent, so perhaps I am being lucky.

> >   * the proposed fix is a no-op (and should hence be reverted), because
> >     the line "# vim: fileencoding=utf-8" already does what the proposed
> >     "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-" does (see PEP 263)

> Agreed. I was not aware of this PEP.

> So, this unicode issue I am experiencing appears to be intermittent, and
> unreproducible. Feel free to close this bug.

Ok. I've also reverted the change.

Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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