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I hope this is the appropiate place to ask this question as I do not see many |
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questions of this kind on this list... |
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Recently I received a bug report for a package of which I am the listed proxy |
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maintainer: https://bugs.gentoo.org/772908 |
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Having looked into this, it seems the packages Makefile allows for tests to be |
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run which feeds a set of input to the 'remind' executable and compares the |
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resulting output against an included textfile. For the test to run successfully, |
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the Makefile assumes the locale en_US.utf-8 to be available. On the build |
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environment by agostino's tinderbox, this locale is not available and thus the |
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test fails and hence the bug report. While I know the impact of this bug is very |
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minor, I'd still like to fix it, but am unsure on how to best do this. |
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Can I somehow enforce the locale to be used in the ebuild? I've tried running |
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the test with the default C locale and the test also fails with this setting. Or |
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should I ask upstream to provide test files for a C locale setting? Or should I |
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skip these tests completely, or mark the bug as WONTFIX? What would you advice |
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as the best approach for dealing with this? |
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Many thanks for any and all suggestions! |
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Regards, |
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Remco |