Source: python-docutils
Version: 0.12+dfsg-1
Severity: minor
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: locale
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi,
While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
that the python-docutils writes the build-time locale into manpages:
--error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]>
Specify text encoding and error handler for error output.
Default: ascii:backslashreplace.
This is misleading and/or incorrect as the default ("ascii:") is
actually determined at run time (in frontend.py) based on the value of
sys.stderr.encoding, not at build time. I think this is the correct
behaviour, so I suggest that the default is removed from the manpage.
(This, incidentally, is causing the build to be unreproduble across
locales, hence the usertag.)
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
Regards,
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