Bug#792838: sitemesh: fails to build properly _and_ silently, when LC_ALL is not set

[tony mancill]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 10:55:25 +0200 Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
wrote:
> Source: sitemesh
> Version: 2.4.1+dfsg-4
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid
> x-debbugs-cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: ftbfs
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> sitemesh builds differently in our setup, that is the installed size of ​
> libsitemesh-​java-​doc is 213 when build with LC_ALL not set and when it's set
> to "fr_CH.UTF-8" the installed size is 4999.
> 
> IOW: it produces different binary packages dependening whether+how LC_ALL is
> set.

Hi Holger,

Thank you for reporting this.  It boils down to whether the special
characters in this @author tag is treated as a warning or an error,
which in turn depends on the locale of the build:

> -  [javadoc] /tmp/buildd/sitemesh-2.4.1+dfsg/src/java/com/opensymphony/module/sitemesh/util/FastByteArrayOutputStream.java:24: error: unmappable character for encoding ASCII
> -  [javadoc]  * @author Rickard ???berg

Thanks,
tony

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