Bug#836377: build system terminal locale not inherited by build programs

Fri Sep 2 17:29:33 UTC 2016

control: reassign -1 dput
control: severity -1 serious
# failing to build on the buildds is RC by definition
thanks

Hi Ben,

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 10:40:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> The bug also appears on the normal buildd hosts. Should we remove
> <reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org> from the loop?

then I suppose this is an RC bug in dput :-D

> It could. Should that not be changed to ‘LANG=C.UTF-8’, since there
> does not seem any good reason to avoid a Unicode locale?

we actually do this variation on purpose, to catch problems with
non-UTF8 locales :-)

-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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