Bug#925879: reprotest: flaky autopkgtest: Unknown encoding 'RK1048' at /usr/bin/help2man line 56.

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:34:48 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian 
<vagrant at reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
> On 2019-03-27, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > Since the introduction of 0.7.8 the autopkgtest of reprotest sometimes
> > fails in unstable and testing, while a retry not much later succeeds.
> > Because the unstable-to-testing migration software now blocks on
> > regressions in testing, flaky tests, i.e. tests that flip between
> > passing and failing without changes to the list of installed packages,
> > are wasting peoples time. Please either fix the test to be more robust,
> > or mark this particular test as "flaky".
> 
> In the short term, probably worth marking as flaky...
> 
> 
> > I: pybuild base:217: python3.7 setup.py config
> > I: pybuild base:217: /usr/bin/python3 setup.py build
> > Unknown encoding 'RK1048' at /usr/bin/help2man line 56.
> > I: pybuild base:217: /usr/bin/python3 setup.py install --root
> 
> This is probably triggered because reprotest randomly picks a locale to
> run:
> 
>         loc = random.choice(['fr_CH.UTF-8', 'es_ES', 'ru_RU.CP1251', 'kk_KZ.RK1048', 'zh_CN'])
> 
> 
> It might be better to adjust the test to only test specific locales,
> which may require adjusting the code a bit.
> 
> 
> Testing locales entirely randomly also results in reprotest producing
> inconsisent tests when using it... so it's not surprising that it's also
> inconsistent in the autopkgtests.
> 
> 
> live well,
>   vagrant

Bug #894126 (help2man bug about this) got closed (supposedly fixed) 
recently. Does that mean this issue should be fixed too?

Paul
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