[DRE-maint] Bug#675974: gem2deb: rdepends FTBFS: `===': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

[Steven Chamberlain]

reassign 675974 src:gem2deb
found 675974 gem2deb/0.2.14
affects 675974 ruby-cairo
severity 675974 critical
# Justification: breaks unrelated software
thanks

Hi,

> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:381:in `===': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

gem2deb chokes on UTF-8 in debian/control files because it is opening
them as US-ASCII.

Seems it needs porting for ruby1.9?

Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org