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  1. Bug #546607
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Comment 2 for bug 546607

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Octavian Voicu (octavian-voicu) wrote :

The bug is in /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1498. In case of an error, format_string is used to display a message but error.message is not a string but an exceptions.SystemError object.

Attached patch should fix this (packagekit-backend-apt.patch).

There is also a related bug in /usr/share/pyshared/packagekit/backend.py, in function format_string. When called with a non-unicode parameter, it should convert it to unicode but doesn't because of a typo.

I'll attach another patch for this (python-packagekit.patch).