Bug#1136442: liblocale-gettext-perl FTBFS: failing tests

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 14 May 2026 07:39:44 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:

>I was fearing you couldn't reproduce it given reproducible cannot. At
>some point, I tried ruling out the environment (that already is much
>sanitized by sbuild) and discovered LANGUAGE. For some reason my build
>environment passed C there, which is not a sensible value. I guess
>nobody ever does that.

Nice find!
We do set LC_ALL for the tests but not LANGUAGE.

>Not sure whether it is worth fixing this in any way or just closing the
>bug.

Setting LANGUAGE as well sounds like a good idea to me in order to 
prevent this trap in the future and save someone time in debugging.


Cheers,
gregor

-- 
  .''`.  https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org
  : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D  85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06
  `. `'  Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe
    `-   
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 963 bytes
Desc: Digital Signature
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-perl-maintainers/attachments/20260514/407540e2/attachment.sig>