From db163d51ba2c5fa2f3624e5f2f896eaf47525f5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Tanner <tanner.jc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:48:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #4891 Catch unicodedecode errors from python-apt

---
 packaging/apt | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packaging/apt b/packaging/apt
index 5173ce60c75..403ce0ea960 100644
--- a/packaging/apt
+++ b/packaging/apt
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ def package_status(m, pkgname, version, cache, state):
             return False, False, False
     try:
         has_files = len(pkg.installed_files) > 0
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        has_files = True
     except AttributeError:
         has_files = False  # older python-apt cannot be used to determine non-purged