From 6b6e5bb7983ba53a7e9e8b4162cf5a7e9e181ee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Gerber <mike@sprachgewalt.de>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 14:36:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=90=9B=20decode=20dpkg=20output=20to=20st?=
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---
 check_kernel | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/check_kernel b/check_kernel
index 926b10e..2ea17d7 100755
--- a/check_kernel
+++ b/check_kernel
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ def installed_kernel_versions_debian():
         ['dpkg-query',
          '--show', '--showformat', '${Package} ${Version}\n',
          'linux-image*'])
-    dpkg_out = dpkg_out.strip()
+    dpkg_out = dpkg_out.decode('ascii', 'ignore').strip()
 
     versions = dpkg_out.split('\n')
     versions = [v for v in versions if re.search('^linux-image-\d.* \S+$', v)]