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

[Niko Tyni]

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

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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org