what's needed is to call 're.compile' with a 'b' flag, for bytes. I'm not familiar with the code enough, to know whether we just can sprinkle that around in all the places where apport's report.py calls 're.compile'. Does anyone have a good guess? Thanks.
So, this looks like a python3 porting issue. According to comments like this:
http:// stackoverflow. com/questions/ 5184483/ python- typeerror- on-regex
what's needed is to call 're.compile' with a 'b' flag, for bytes. I'm not familiar with the code enough, to know whether we just can sprinkle that around in all the places where apport's report.py calls 're.compile'. Does anyone have a good guess? Thanks.