i18n: package info with utf8 chars prevents upload about deb-s3

[mcbain]

I already tried all the stackoverflow hints setting the correct locale or adding #encoding: utf-8 as file header to package.rb without success.

[krobertson]

Do you have a link to the deb to test against?

[mcbain]

I was using deb-s3 from a Teamcity build configuration, which uses POSIX settings for all locale for some reason (maybe becasue agent process is started with ubuntu start-stop-deamon).
Setting all locale variables to a UTF-8 locale fixed the problem.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-lea/node.js/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_0.10.28-1chl1~trusty1_amd64.deb

[krobertson]

I think this is fixed with some of the recent changes. Ruby 1.9 complicating string encoding a lot.

Changed it so all code files are utf-8, also changed it so that the mime type of the file being uploaded is set to octet stream. Noticed that tends to be more the proper handling for apt, while before we were uploading with text/plain and the coding of "us-ascii", so not ideal to utf8.

[kedare]

Hello,

Are you sure this has been fixed ? I just had the same issue with a package I try to upload :
/var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/deb-s3-0.7.1/lib/deb/s3/package.rb:283:in `block (2 levels) in parse_control': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

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