Bug#894217: [reprotest] kk_KZ.RK1048 again

[Agustin Henze]

Ximin, before you start reading this. Please, think about if you have enough
time and interest, because it seems that you are not reading me :(. If you
don't have time for this, please, just don't answer. I'll understand.

On 04/19/18 15:04, Ximin Luo wrote:
[...]
> 
> I'm sorry but I don't have any more time to look into this problem in depth, but this output suggests there is something wrong with either Perl or the locales-all package. Clearly it recognises RK1048 over XXXX but then something it's expecting is missing.
> 

I can see that you don't have time for this... You are not reading me or I am
too bad explaining myself... We already found the bug and we already reported
it... But thank you for the hint anyway.

[...]
> 
> 2 or 3 is not "a lot", back when I was doing reproducible builds full-time I would look at fixing issues affecting 20-30 packages or sometimes several hundred. Please try to understand the exact nature of the problem I am pointing out rather than coming back with the same point.
> 

Ok, I wasn't doing a comparison of problems here... And I said 2 of 3, that's
66.66% and because we migrated just 3 packages to salsa. We are applying the
same pipeline for all our packages and reprotest is a single job inside the
pipeline... I have no idea how are you testing it, but every single package
that uses help2man or sphinx is not going to be reproducible according to
reprotest and it'll fail randomly.

> If you do more in-depth research on the problem I might be inclined to take it more seriously, but so far it looks like that isn't the case here. Reading the POSIX and C standards for locale-related functions might help you understand the problem better.

As I said above and previously, we already found the bug... We were trying to
use reprotest in our CI pipeline on salsa.

Cheers,

-- 
TiN

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