[Bug 1564492] Re: FTBFS: php-mf2 due to unicode in substvars file

[Nish Aravamudan]

** Also affects: php-net-smartirc (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  FTBFS: php-mf2 due to unicode in substvars file

Status in debhelper package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in php-mf2 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in php-net-smartirc package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  php-mf2 rebuild fails currently with:

  dpkg-gencontrol: error: bad line in substvars file debian/php-mf2.substvars at line 2
  dh_gencontrol.pkg-create-dbgsym: dpkg-gencontrol -pphp-mf2 -ldebian/changelog -Tdebian/php-mf2.substvars -Pdebian/php-mf2 returned exit code 25
  debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'binary' failed
  make: *** [binary] Error 2
  dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2

  This is because debian/php-mf2.substvars content is:

  phpcomposer:name=mf2/mf2
  phpcomposer:description=A pure, generic microformats2 parser — makes HTML as easy to consume as a${Newline}JSON API

  and grep is complaining about a binary file:

  # grep -s -v phpcomposer:name debian/php-mf2.substvars
  Binary file debian/php-mf2.substvars matches

  This is due to unicode in the file.

  Debian has fixed this with
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/commit/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm?id=9ca73a0a80fcfc93c1f47e41c61318b038f4e2da,
  which we should backport.

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