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Re: Contributing to pandoc dependencies



On Mon, 2022-05-30 at 14:04 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Robert Greener (2022-05-30 12:48:42)
> > On Mon, 2022-05-30 at 08:49 +0000, Robert Greener wrote:
> > > > I use pbuilder indeed.
> > > > 
> > > > If the build requires a UTF-8 locale set, then it is wrong to
> > > > rely
> > > > on
> > > > the build environment doing that: The build routines should
> > > > establish
> > > > that!
> > > 
> > > I'm not too sure how to set it to be honest! There is a bug on
> > > Ubuntu
> > > discussing it here[1]. I /think/ (from reading the comments) that
> > > it
> > > isn't possible to set it with pbuilder as it is. However, all
> > > official
> > > Debian and Ubuntu builds use C.UTF-8, so it will build okay here.
> > > Do
> > > you think I should raise a bug on the pbuilder package?
> > > 
> > > Or, do you think it would work if we just set LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 in
> > > debian/rules?
> > 
> > Setting LC_ALL does work. I've uploaded the fixes to mentors[1,2]
> > and
> > opened two MR[3,4] which fixes the FTBFS bugs.
> 
> For future sake, when you have an idea for a packaging trick but am
> unsure if it'll work, you might find it helpful to lookup if others
> are
> doing something similar - e.g. at https://codesearch.debian.net/
> using this search query: LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 path:debian
> 

Thanks -- that's really useful!

> > Would you be okay to merge the requests and upload the packages
> > Jonas?
> 
> Sorry, I have 20+ years of experience maintaining packages in Debian,
> with
> 10+ years doing so with a git-buildpackage-ish workflow, and
> currently
> maintain 600+ packages.  All my experience is however done
> project-centric, and I feel totally alienated by the multi-project
> packaging approach practiced in the Haskell and Rust teams.
> 
> So no, I cannot (or rather will not invest needed time to learn to)
> handle multi-project package maintenance.

Sure. Scott would you be able to merge them & upload?

-- 
Robert


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