Bug#836377: reproducible-builds: Locale C.UTF-8 not inherited by build terminal

[Ben Finney]

Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: normal

The package ‘dput’ explicitly sets the ‘LC_ALL’ environment variable
to “C.UTF-8”, and exports that value to sub-processes
<URL:https://sources.debian.net/src/dput/0.10.1/debian/rules/>.

Yet the latest reproducible-build attempt reports failure
<URL:https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/dput.html>.

Specifically, the build system does not detect a UTF-8 locale:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  […]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2009' in position 186: ordinal not in range(128)
E: pybuild pybuild:276: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python2.7 setup.py test 
dh_auto_test: pybuild --test -i python{version} -p 2.7 returned exit code 13
debian/rules:24: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
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This happens only on the reproducible build server; when running on a
system that actually has a UTF-8 terminal locale, the build succeeds.

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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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