Re: bterm-unifont_1.7_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Cyril Brulebois, le dim. 01 janv. 2023 08:48:39 +0100, a ecrit:
> I didn't check, but this looks like a possible culprit for the new d-i
> daily build failures on armel and armhf?
> | hex2bdf \
> |     -v "`dpkg-query -W -f '${Version}' unifont`" \
> |     -c "`dpkg-query -W -f '${Homepage}' unifont`" \
> |     < /usr/share/unifont/unifont.hex \
> |     > tmp/kirkwood_netboot/unifont.bdf.full
> | LOCPATH=./tmp/kirkwood_netboot/tree/usr/lib/locale LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 reduce-font tmp/kirkwood_netboot/unifont.bdf.full < ./tmp/kirkwood_netboot/all.utf > tmp/kirkwood_netboot/unifont.bdf.tmp
> | setlocale: C.UTF-8
> | FYI: MB_CUR_MAX/MB_LEN_MAX: 6/16
> | error -1 at position 349178 (bytes: 16 Ù
> |  جرّب Ùˆ Ù)
> | Used chars: 2252 (349178 processed)

It could look so indeed, but hex2bdf, unifont.hex, and reduce-font
don't come from it. Looking at all.utf, it seems it's the choose-mirror
package which has a typo:

$ iconv -f utf-8 <  all.utf
[...]

Template: mirror/suite
Type: select
Choices-C: ${CHOICES-C}
Choices: ${CHOICES}
Description: Debian version to install:
 Debian comes in several flavors. Stable is well-tested and rarely changes.
 Unstable is untested and frequently changing. Testing is a middle ground,
 that receives many of the new versions from unstable if they are not too
 buggy.
 .
 Only flavors available on the selected mirror are listed.
Description-ar.UTF-8: إصدارة دبيان التي ستثبّت:
 يتوفّر دبيان بعدة أنواع. المستقر مختبر
 جيّداً و قلّما يتغيّر. الغير مستقر غير iconv: illegal input sequence at position 349178

(that it happens only on a couple of archs is probably just a different
build time thing).

Samuel