[Python-apps-team] Bug#912099: gnumeric: FTBFS with itstool 2.0.4: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: reassign -1 itstool 2.0.4-2
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/itstool/itstool/issues/22
Control: affects -1 src:gnumeric

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:05:47AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Source: gnumeric
> Version: 1.12.43-1 
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs
> Control: block 902557 with -1
> X-Debbugs-Cc: itstool at packages.debian.org
> 
> As seen at
> 
>   https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/gnumeric.html
> 
> gnumeric fails to build on current sid/amd64. It seems to have broken
> with itstool 2.0.4 in early October or so. From the build log:
> 
>   if test -f "${mo}"; then mo="../${mo}"; else mo="/build/1st/gnumeric-1.12.43/doc/${mo}"; fi; \
>   (cd "cs/" && itstool -m "${mo}" ${d}/C/gnumeric.xml) && \
>   touch "cs/cs.stamp"
>   Warning: Could not merge cs translation for msgid:
>   The chapters of this version of the <application>Gnumeric</application> manual are organized as follows: <_:itemizedlist-1/>
> [...]
>   Error: Could not merge translations:
>   'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 97: ordinal not in range(128)
>   make[3]: *** [Makefile:1414: cs/cs.stamp] Error 1
>   
> This seems to be the same issue as
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1604169
> 
>   https://github.com/itstool/itstool/issues/22
> 
>   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric/issues/331

The agrrement seems to be that this is a regression in itstool and 
should be fixed there.

cu
Adrian

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