Bug#796152: liblocale-gettext-perl: FTBFS on reproducible.debian.net: test failures

[Kim Vandry]

On 2015-08-19 16:13, Chris Lamb wrote:
> So, I could reliably reproduce the failure yesterday in the following
> case:
>
>   - System has fr_CH.UTF-8 generated
>   - LANG is not exported
>   - "fr_CH" exported as LC_MESSAGES (NB. no UTF-8 suffix)
>
> However:
>
>   a) This prints a bunch of "perl: warning: Setting locale failed."
>   warnings that are not visible on reproducible.net
>
>   b) This is a little *too* contrived for my liking..

Hi Chris,

Yes, that is maybe a little too contrived. If Perl gives that complaint 
about "Setting locale failed" then it means the system does not 
recognize the locale, so for sure nothing is going to work.

-kv