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Diffstat (limited to 'apt/package.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | apt/package.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/apt/package.py b/apt/package.py index 3ea1105d..f12f5559 100644 --- a/apt/package.py +++ b/apt/package.py @@ -272,8 +272,12 @@ class Version(object): """ self.summary # This does the lookup for us. desc = '' + + dsc = self.package._pcache._records.LongDesc try: - dsc = unicode(self.package._pcache._records.LongDesc, "utf-8") + if not isinstance(dsc, unicode): + # Only convert where needed (i.e. Python 2.X) + dsc = unicode(dsc, "utf-8") except UnicodeDecodeError, err: return _("Invalid unicode in description for '%s' (%s). " "Please report.") % (self.package.name, err) |