tree 2f4ec52ef7a3deb27a2a5f2c49ecc6d369e343b9
parent 383339c1f11ac250e5d8186f728ebcff057c52f2
author Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com> 1621341580 +0200
committer Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com> 1621499842 +0200

Switch assemble_changelog to using text strings

Changelog contents should be UTF-8 text files. There's no need to be
binary-safe. So switch to using text strings in Python (str, not bytes). This
commit makes the following changes:
* Bytes literals (b'…') to string literals ('…').
* Subprocess output (which is all git information) is decoded as ascii.
* Inject text directly in exceptions rather than calling a decode method.

This is enough to make the script work as desired in a UTF-8 locale.

Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>