[DRE-maint] Bug#1104697: ruby-dbf: FTBFS caused by failure/Error: expect(record.name.encode('UTF-8').unpack1('H4')).to eq 'd0b0'

[Lucas Kanashiro]

On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 14:35 -0300, Leandro Cunha wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> > El 20/5/25 a las 18:19, Leandro Cunha escribió:
> > > The build may fail on any build that does not have unicode as
> > > UTF-8 in
> > > its environment. I don't know if this would be a possible
> > > scenario
> > > given our reality living in Brazil and speaking Portuguese (or
> > > English
> > > or Spanish), as the tests fail, both reproducible builds and
> > > Salsa CI.
> > > Since there is a new version pending and trixie has already
> > > advanced
> > > to hard freeze, I think it is more interesting to wait to pass
> > > this
> > > stage. This is according to what is stated in the log:
> > 
> > Hello. I can build this package just fine using sbuild, so I agree
> > this is not RC.
> > 
> > But the builds which fails in Salsa CI are the normal builds (amd64
> > and i386),
> > not the one by reprotest. Salsa CI is supposed to be as similar as
> > possible to
> > a "normal" build (made by sbuild), so I believe there is something
> > subtle going on here (which I would like to know if somebody
> > figures out).
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> This could be resolved normally in GitLab CI with:
> variables:
> LANG: en_US.UTF-8
> LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
> And I'm checking in the Salsa CI if this would be possible, but I'm
> giving priority to reproducible builds in which the test fails for
> unstable and trixie. But I confess that this bug left me with doubts
> about which would be more appropriate, serious or important. But due
> to the automatic removal already scheduled, it was better to down to
> important due to the failure in reprotest (FTBFS flag) that I'm
> giving
> more emphasis to.

Since this is not impacting the archive or the release, this is not RC
material IMO. You can argue that it can be considered important, but I
have not seen people filing reproducible builds issues as important
bugs. Anyway, fix the MR and we can upload the package, it is not a key
package and it has DEP-8 test (non-superficial), so it can migrate
after 20 days due to the hard freeze IIRC.

Lucas Kanashiro.
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