exception raised by installedFiles on unicode filenames

trivial script to reproduce the backtrace

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

"fixes" this. I guess this is just python being a bit weak on unicode?

I committed the following fix to the Debian branch which should fix this problem.

=== modified file 'apt/package.py'
--- apt/package.py 2010-03-08 14:04:39 +0000
+++ apt/package.py 2010-03-30 10:58:26 +0000
@@ -955,9 +955,9 @@ class Package(object):
         """
         path = "/var/lib/dpkg/info/%s.list" % self.name
         try:
- file_list = open(path)
+ file_list = open(path, "rb")
             try:
- return file_list.read().decode().split("\n")
+ return file_list.read().decode("utf-8").split(u"\n")
             finally:
                 file_list.close()
         except EnvironmentError:

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.7.94.2ubuntu5

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python-apt (0.7.94.2ubuntu5) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * apt/package.py:
    - Decode using utf-8 in installed_files (LP: #407953).
    - Fix fetch_source() to work when source name = binary name (LP: #552400).
  * python/cache.cc:
    - Check that 2nd argument to Cache.update() really is a SourceList object.
  * python/generic.cc:
    - Map ArchiveURI property to archive_uri
  * utils/migrate-0.8.py:
    - Open files in universal newline support and pass filename to ast.parse.
    - Add has_key to the list of deprecated functions.
    - Don't abort if parsing failed.
    - do not require files to end in .py if they are passed on the command
      line or if they contain python somewhere in the shebang line.
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:11:38 +0200