On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 04:37:45PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-06-09 at 08:38 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I havent looked at the test in detail, I have not yet decided whether
> > the package would be helpful in Debian. It looks like the test has
> > en_GB.UTF-8 hardcoded, sets the locale to that value and then fails
> > it it's not there. Most likely it's the home locale of the dev.
>
> It sounds like you could simply patch it to use C.UTF-8 instead?
>
> Or send upstream a patch to take the locale from the environment
> variables. Of course then tests might fail if someone uses a weird
> locale and the test results depend on the locale
At which point you have most likely uncovered a bug! (unless you are
running something that by definition is supposed to be
locale-dependant).
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