Treat .dsc as bytes, just like everything else, rather than letting HTTP::Message convert it to a Perl unicode string which the rest of the program mishandles. Closes:#738536.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d63f5cb..84d835b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ dgit (0.22~experimental1) experimental; urgency=low
   * Check SHA-256 of .dsc against hash from archive_query (ie projectb)
     rather than letting dpkg-source do a signature verification.
     Closes:#737619.
+  * Treat .dsc as bytes, just like everything else, rather than letting
+    HTTP::Message convert it to a Perl unicode string which the rest of
+    the program mishandles.  Closes:#738536.
 
   Minor improvements:
   * Include canonicalised suite name in signed tag message.
diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 8517c8a..4125c37 100755
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ sub url_get {
     my $r = $ua->get(@_) or die $!;
     return undef if $r->code == 404;
     $r->is_success or fail "failed to fetch $what: ".$r->status_line;
-    return $r->decoded_content();
+    return $r->decoded_content(charset => 'none');
 }
 
 our ($dscdata,$dscurl,$dsc,$dsc_checked,$skew_warning_vsn);