Bug#613395: FTBFS: spelling tests fail

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:35:52 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> They're included in the package, but not all used by default.  fwiw, I
> can reproduce the symptom outside of the package build:


On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:45:36 +0000, Chris Butler wrote:

> > Might this be related to some dictionaries? The errors above look
> > like something doesn't like en_US.
> […]
> > But I'm also fine with turning off either all pod tests or at least
> > pod-spelling.
> 
> I can reproduce it here, with LANG set to en_GB.utf-8 in my environment.
> Running sbuild with a clean environment via "env -i" works.

I'm surrendering to the en_GB cabal :)

Seriously: thanks, and I could have thought of LANG and friends
myself ,,,
 
> Not sure why LANG is getting through to sbuild… but perhaps we should force
> LANG=C for the testsuite? Or, as gregor suggested, we could just disable the
> POD tests.

Running the tests with LANG=C sounds like the minimal solution; may I
ask you to try this (since you have the appropriate locale for
testing)? 

Cheers,
gregor
 
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