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Comment 2 for bug 516679

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 516679] Re: Confusing error message when accessing a branch I don't have a access on Launchpad

On 3 February 2010 19:21, John A Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
> Looking at the failure for gnome-control-center and looking at the changelog I see, this appears to just be a simple failure to handle any non-ascii author names.
> Specifically," -- Sebastian Dr\xc3\xb6ge ..." is listed many times as the author for part of the changelog. My guess is that the code simply is mixing decoded author names with encoded author names.
>
> Arguably a 'correct' fix is to change python-debian to use Unicode
> names, but I'm assuming we don't really get to touch that code, so we
> should be doing so in bzr-builddeb.

ewrongtab?

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