[Bug 1301857] Re: gdebi-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in commit(): 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: unexpected end of data

[pvdeynse]

bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.9.5.3

but not fixed in the graphical version "gdebi-gtk"

 trying to install following package:

       gdebi-gtk eid-viewer_4.0.4r146_i386_tcm227-178471.deb

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/gdebi-gtk", line 79, in <module>
      app = GDebiGtk(datadir=data,options=options,file=afile)
    File "/usr/share/gdebi/GDebi/GDebiGtk.py", line 151, in __init__
      self.open(file)
    File "/usr/share/gdebi/GDebi/GDebiGtk.py", line 300, in open
      self.label_maintainer.set_text(utf8(self._deb["Maintainer"]))
    File "/usr/share/gdebi/GDebi/DebPackage.py", line 39, in __getitem__
      return self._sections[item]
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xeb in position 10: invalid continuation byte

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Title:
  gdebi-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in commit(): 'utf-8' codec
  can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: unexpected end of data

Status in “gdebi” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  can not install trueycrypt

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gdebi 0.9.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-21.43-generic 3.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Apr  3 12:38:43 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/gdebi/gdebi-gtk
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-03 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140402)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.4
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk --non-interactive /media/josef/Trekstore/Laufwerk/Linux\ Software/gimagereader_0.9.1-1_all.deb
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=unknown
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi-gtk', '--non-interactive', '/media/josef/Trekstore/Laufwerk/Linux Software/gimagereader_0.9.1-1_all.deb']
  SourcePackage: gdebi
  Title: gdebi-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in commit(): 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: unexpected end of data
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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