Bug#982974: FTBFS: fails to compile translation files

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 02:43:03PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>...
> On Thu, 2021-02-18 at 07:16 -0800, tony mancill wrote:
>...
> > It seems that a local sbuild in a clean chroot doesn't set the
> > environment the same way that reproducible-builds.org does, as
> > 4.17.0-1
> > builds correctly in that environment.  But that's a separate concern.
> > 
> 
> Yes. That is an oddity in between the buildds and other efforts (like
> Reproducible Builds, OBS).

Reproducible Builds does not try to mimic the buildds.

Reproducible Builds tries to ensure that the package always ends up 
being the same, even when built in different and weird timezones,
and no matter whether the locale sorts 'z' before or after 't'.

>...
> It isn't identical to what buildds do but we try to
> keep it as close to it as possible.
>...

The buildds set LC_ALL=C.UTF-8

I would argue in the year 2021 dpkg should just refuse with a helpful 
error message to build packages in a non-UTF-8 locale, but this is a 
separate discussion.

cu
Adrian