Bug#1018802: localechooser: reproducible builds: locale and parallelism trigger reproducibility issues

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Source: localechooser
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: locale randomness
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

The templates file contains randomness and locale-specific translations
dependent on the host system locale.

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bookworm/amd64/diffoscope-results/localechooser.html

  Indices-lo.UTF-8:·1,·2,·3,·4,·5,·6,·7,·8,·9,·10,·11, ... ,·50,·51
  vs.
  Indices-lo.UTF-8:·1,·3,·4,·5,·6,·7,·8,·9,·10,·11, ... ·50,·51,·2,·19

  Choices-lo.UTF-8:·Algeria,·Angola,·Benin,·Botswana, ... Eswatini,·Ethiopia,·Gabon ...
  vs.
  Choices-lo.UTF-8:·Algeria,·ປະເທດອັງໂກລາ,·Benin,·Botswana, ... Eswatini,·ເອທິໂອເປຍ,·Gabon ...

That attached patches fix this by passing --no-parallel to dh (parallism
was probably introduced in the switch from debhelper compat 9 to 13),
and by exporting LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 in debian/rules.


Thanks for maintaining localechooser!


live well,
  vagrant
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