[DRE-maint] Bug#721574: ruby-gettext: undefined method force_encoding... during apt-listbugs

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

Package: ruby-gettext
Version: 3.0.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

calling aptitude [] runs apt-listbugs that fails with

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/mo.rb:46: undefined method
`force_encoding' for "\225\004\022\336":String (NoMethodError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain.rb:16:in
        `require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain.rb:16
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain_manager.rb:14:in `require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain_manager.rb:14
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext.rb:19:in `require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext.rb:19
        from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:274:in `require'
        from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:274

downgrading to 2.3.9-1 solves the problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ruby-gettext depends on:
ii  ruby-locale                   2.0.8-1
ii  ruby-text                     1.0.3-1
ii  ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter]    1.8.7.358-7.1
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.194-8.2

ruby-gettext recommends no packages.

ruby-gettext suggests no packages.

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