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

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 01:18:39PM -0400, Kim Vandry wrote:
> On 2015-08-19 15:49, Niko Tyni wrote:
> >This package fails its test suite on the reproducible.debian.net
> >CI setup in the "second build", where the build environment is varied
> >as far as possible from the first one. The list of variations is at

> I checked the build log at that URL and I did not actually see a test
> failure in there, however there are many test failures on CPAN testers
> including on Debian stable as can be seen here:
> 
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/98dd4f64-5e2c-11e5-8fcd-c964e0bfc7aa

Yes, the reproducible.debian.net seems to have gone away in the meantime...

> I believe I know what the cause of the failure in that case: the $LANGUAGE
> environment variable which GNU gettext uses but the test data generation
> script did not know about.

Ah, that makes sense. Good catch.

> That problem should now be fixed in version 1.07:
> 
> https://github.com/vandry/Perl-Locale-gettext
> https://metacpan.org/pod/release/PVANDRY/Locale-gettext-1.07/gettext.pm
> 
> That version also obsoletes both patches that the Debian module is currently
> carrying, so I recommend upgrading the Debian package to upstream 1.07 to
> fix this problem.

Many thanks for your work, and for this notification too. Much appreciated!
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org