[Python-modules-team] Bug#844934: obsub: FTBFS: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 2855: ordinal not in range(128)

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: obsub
Version: 0.2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20161118 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
> dh clean --with python2,python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
>    dh_testdir -O--buildsystem=pybuild
>    dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
> I: pybuild base:184: python2.7 setup.py clean 
> running clean
> removing '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/.pybuild/pythonX.Y_2.7/build' (and everything under it)
> 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64' does not exist -- can't clean it
> 'build/scripts-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it
> I: pybuild base:184: python3.5 setup.py clean 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 10, in <module>
>     long_description = open('README.rst').read()
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
>     return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 2855: ordinal not in range(128)
> E: pybuild pybuild:276: clean: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python3.5 setup.py clean 
> dh_auto_clean: pybuild --clean --test-nose -i python{version} -p 3.5 returned exit code 13
> debian/rules:6: recipe for target 'clean' failed
> make: *** [clean] Error 25

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2016/11/18/obsub_0.2-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.