dpkg_resource crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in get_dpkg(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

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dpkg_resource parses the output of dpkg --version. Since you're using a de_DE locale, this contains non-ascii characters which are causing the problem.

Steps to reproduce:

1- sudo apt-get install language-pack-de{,-base}
2- LANGUAGE=de_DE LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 /usr/share/checkbox/scripts/dpkg_resource

Expected result:

version: 1.16.1.2
architecture: i386

Actual result:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/scripts/dpkg_resource", line 56, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/scripts/dpkg_resource", line 47, in main
    dpkg = get_dpkg()
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/scripts/dpkg_resource", line 38, in get_dpkg
    output.decode("ascii"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

I'll set as triaged with importance: High as this will hit everyone not using an english locale.

This bug was fixed in the package checkbox - 0.14.1

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checkbox (0.14.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #1018571)

  [Brendan Donegan]
  * Fixed up a few things with the gpu_lockup tests. Removed depends,
    renamed to gpu_lockup_suspend to reflect behaviour and removed the
    requirement on Firefox
  * Changed suspend_advanced and suspend_advanced_auto to use less
    strict definition of fwts s3 test.

  [Javier Collado]
  * Make sure that jobs are topologically ordered (LP: #990075)
  * Keep job ordering as close to whitelist as possible (LP: #1017951)

  [Marc Tardif]
  * New version 0.14.1 for Quantal Quetzal development.
  * jobs/suspend.txt.in: Fixed trailing newline on otherwise empty line.
  * scripts/run_templates: Fixed calls to Popen to use universal_newlines
    to return strings instead of bytes (LP: #1018354)

  [Daniel Manrique]
  * Fixed duplicate suspend/bluetooth_obex_after_suspend job name.
  * scripts/dpkg_resource: Changed encoding from ascii to utf-8 to handle
    non-ascii locales (LP: #1018353)

  [Jeff Lane]
  * Migrated audio/external-HDMI-playback into checkbox. Modified the
    command to match our other audio tests that save and reset mixer
    levels.
 -- Javier Collado <email address hidden> Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:07:04 +0200