Bug#676114: wordnet: FTBFS: debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: wordnet
Version: 1:3.0-27
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120604 qa-ftbfs
User: debian-ruby at lists.debian.org
Usertags: default19
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
> make[3]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> touch debian/stamp-makefile-build
> DEB_MAKE_CHECK_TARGET unset, not running checks
> set -e; \
> 	if dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH|grep -q 'mips\|arm\|s390'; then \
> 		if test "$FORCE_GOLDENDICT_BUILD" -gt 0; then \
> 			ruby debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb > goldendict-wordnet.dsl; \
> 		else \
> 			echo "Building of goldendict-wordnet dictionary was skipped"; \
> 			echo "to build this package use environment variable"; \
> 			echo "FORCE_GOLDENDICT_BUILD=1" ; \
> 			touch goldendict-wordnet.dsl; \
> 		fi; \
> 	else \
> 		ruby debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb > goldendict-wordnet.dsl; \
> 	fi
> debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
> debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
> debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')'
>     print_array(@words, 'Syn', "[c blue]•[/c]")
>                                           ^
> make: *** [goldendict-wordnet.dsl] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2012/06/04/wordnet_3.0-27_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.