Bug#978315: dasher: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: make -j4 check VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello gettext maintainers,

Lucas Nussbaum, le sam. 26 déc. 2020 22:52:15 +0100, a ecrit:
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
> on amd64.
> 
> > INTLTOOL_EXTRACT="/usr/bin/intltool-extract" XGETTEXT="/usr/bin/xgettext" srcdir=. /usr/bin/intltool-update --gettext-package dasher --pot
> > xgettext: x-c.c:1666: phase5_get: Assertion `UNICODE_VALUE (c) >= 0 && UNICODE_VALUE (c) < 0x110000' failed.
> > ERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file. Please consult
> >        error message above if there is any.

And this is due to this part of dasher:

  EXPECT_STREQ("(Invalid Unicode 0xABCDFF)",
   WideStringToUtf8(L"\xABCDFF", -1).c_str());

which is precisely *expected* to be an invalid code-point... Since this
string is not marked as to be translated, xgettext shouldn't error out
about it?

Samuel