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submittodebian: TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes

Bug #1863119 reported by Jamie Strandboge
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Bug Description

On focal, I tried to use submittodebian and encountered this:

$ submittodebian
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/submittodebian", line 264, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/submittodebian", line 243, in main
    f.write(bug_body.encode('utf-8'))
TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes
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$ apt-cache policy ubuntu-dev-tools
ubuntu-dev-tools:
  Installed: 0.175
  Candidate: 0.175
  Version table:
 *** 0.175 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.175ubuntu1

---------------
ubuntu-dev-tools (0.175ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  [ Dan Streetman ]
  * lpapicache: remove new requirement to pass arch to getBinaries()
    (LP: #1862286)
  * ubuntu-upload-permission: sort packagesets by name to fix py3
    (LP: #1862372)
  * submittodebian: open with 'b' before writing utf-8 encoded bytes
    (LP: #1863119)

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Use +sourcefiles URLs where possible (LP: #1860456)

 -- Dan Streetman <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:20:23 -0500

Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu Focal):
status: New → Fix Released
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