Bug#782068: perl: t/run/locale fails when LC_* are set

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:02:53 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> > > When trying to build perl using pbuilder, the test `t/run/locale`
> > > failed. I had LC_TIME and LC_CTYPE set.
> > Reminds me of a bug I reported last summer ...
> > Here it is: #759733
> This one feels more like a bug in pbuilder to me. Shouldn't it
> clean the environment of LC_* if it is not going to provide the
> needed locales, rather than putting the onus on the package being built?

While this is a valid point, I assume that also a plain
dpkg-buildpackage in a "normal" environment fails, which is not
elegant.

As a side note: Some months ago I tried to come up with a patch; this
sounds simple, and (un)setting enviroment variables is nothing
unusual -- but as you can see from the lack of a patch I failed :/

Cheers,
gregor

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