diff --git a/britney2/policies/sruadtregression.py b/britney2/policies/sruadtregression.py
index fe202e8..17b56fb 100644
--- a/britney2/policies/sruadtregression.py
+++ b/britney2/policies/sruadtregression.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class SRUADTRegressionPolicy(BasePolicy, Rest):
             raise last_exception
         bugs = set()
         for l in changes:
+            l = l.decode('utf-8')
             if l.startswith('Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed: '):
                 bugs = {int(b) for b in l.split()[1:]}
                 break
diff --git a/tests/test_sruadtregression.py b/tests/test_sruadtregression.py
index a85e3c7..218e713 100755
--- a/tests/test_sruadtregression.py
+++ b/tests/test_sruadtregression.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from britney2.policies.sruadtregression import SRUADTRegressionPolicy
 from tests.test_sourceppa import FakeBritney
 
 
-FAKE_CHANGES = """Format: 1.8
+FAKE_CHANGES = b"""Format: 1.8
 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:05:18 -0500
 Source: test
 Binary: test
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ class T(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         super().setUp()
 
-    @patch('britney2.policies.sruadtregression.urlopen', return_value=iter(FAKE_CHANGES.split('\n')))
+    @patch('britney2.policies.sruadtregression.urlopen', return_value=iter(FAKE_CHANGES.split(b'\n')))
     def test_bugs_from_changes(self, urlopen_mock):
         """Check extraction of bug numbers from .changes files"""
         with TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir: