UnicodeEncodeError at changelog.py

[130s]

Described here.

I've looked at the code (/catkin_pkg/changelog.py) wondering if I could hack it or at least if I could find a way to unit test, but I found it's beyond me..thus I can't provide reproduction scenario other than running bloom-release as described in the question thread above.

[dirk-thomas]

I can invoke catkin_test_changelog for the referenced file https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_robot_plugins/blob/f14848f629e2201aa48a0d942d08080c8e1fe73f/rqt_robot_dashboard/CHANGELOG.rst just fine. Can you please try to run that command on the file which raises in your case? Or can you provide another file which exhibit the same error when catkin_test_changelog is being invoked?

[130s]

catkin_test_changelog seems to be running just fine here too as below. I close this now since this CHANGELOG.rst file has more critical problem (keeping forthcoming entry not updated).

rosuser@roshost:~/catkinws/src/rqt_robot_plugins/rqt_robot_dashboard$ catkin_test_changelog CHANGELOG.rst
DEBUG:changelog:Ignored section with title: 'Forthcoming'
DEBUG:changelog:Ignored section with non-compliant title: 'Forthcoming'
DEBUG:changelog:Ignored section with non-compliant title: 'Forthcoming'
  0.2.15 (2013-04-25 00:00:00):
    * Fix; float values are rounded undesirably (#21 <https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_robot_plugins/pull/21>) @dornhege @130s
    * Correct and clean up dependencies
  0.2.14 (2013-04-12 00:00:00):
  0.2.13 (2013-04-09 00:00:00):
  0.2.12 (2013-04-06 18:22:00):
  0.2.11 (2013-04-06 18:00:00):
  0.2.10 (2013-04-04 00:00:00):
    * maintainer added @130s
  0.2.9 (2013-03-07 00:00:00):
  0.2.8 (2013-01-11 00:00:00):
    * Add accessor for widget state.
  0.2.7 (2012-12-23 15:58:00):
    * first public release for Groovy

[dirk-thomas]

If you are opening an issue about a specific problem please always try to provide the necessary information to reproduce the issue (in this case the changelog file which resulted i an error). Just closing it because there are other issues you are facing right now does not help in making the code better.

[sromberg]

I experience the same issue with rosmake in ROS Indigo. Description and solution found at ros/ros#54