[Bug 1591626] Re: Running update-apt-xapian-index -vf ends with error

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Similar issue here:
I have a system which was upgraded from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS recently.
Since then I get the weekly errors from /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index as shown below.
I have already purged python and xapian and re-installed them but no change.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 111, in <module>
    indexer.rebuild(opts.pkgfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 758, in rebuild
    self.buildIndex(dbdir, generator)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 733, in buildIndex
    for doc in documents:
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 580, in gen_documents_apt
    yield self.get_document_from_apt(pkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 543, in get_document_from_apt
    addon.obj.index(document, pkg)
  File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/descriptions.py", line 108, in index
    self.indexer.index_text_without_positions(version.raw_description)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/package.py", line 499, in raw_description
    return self._records.long_desc
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 48: invalid continuation byte
run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index exited with return code 1

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Title:
  Running update-apt-xapian-index -vf ends with error

Status in apt-xapian-index package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Running update-apt-xapian-index -vf ends with error:
  Rebuilding Xapian index... 6%Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 111, in <module>
      indexer.rebuild(opts.pkgfile)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 758, in rebuild
      self.buildIndex(dbdir, generator)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 733, in buildIndex
      for doc in documents:
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 580, in gen_documents_apt
      yield self.get_document_from_apt(pkg)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 543, in get_document_from_apt
      addon.obj.index(document, pkg)
    File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/apttags.py", line 127, in index
      rec = ver.record
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/package.py", line 592, in record
      return Record(self._records.record)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 724: invalid start byte

  I'm trying run update-apt-xapian-index by hand because Synaptic quick
  search doesn't work anymore.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: apt-xapian-index 0.47ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-23.41-lowlatency 4.4.10
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-23-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jun 12 09:20:47 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-13 (484 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-25 (47 days ago)

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