[gentoo-dev] Specifying locale in ebuild

[Remco Rijnders]

I hope this is the appropiate place to ask this question as I do not see many
questions of this kind on this list...

Recently I received a bug report for a package of which I am the listed proxy
maintainer: https://bugs.gentoo.org/772908

Having looked into this, it seems the packages Makefile allows for tests to be
run which feeds a set of input to the 'remind' executable and compares the
resulting output against an included textfile. For the test to run successfully,
the Makefile assumes the locale en_US.utf-8 to be available. On the build
environment by agostino's tinderbox, this locale is not available and thus the
test fails and hence the bug report. While I know the impact of this bug is very
minor, I'd still like to fix it, but am unsure on how to best do this.

Can I somehow enforce the locale to be used in the ebuild? I've tried running
the test with the default C locale and the test also fails with this setting. Or
should I ask upstream to provide test files for a C locale setting? Or should I
skip these tests completely, or mark the bug as WONTFIX? What would you advice
as the best approach for dealing with this?

Many thanks for any and all suggestions!

Regards,

Remco