Control: tag -1 moreinfo Hi!
[ Please remember to CC something like <package>@packages.debian.org when reassigning otherwise the new maintainers only see a control reply w/o context, thanks. ] On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 08:26:56 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > package: sbuild > version: 0.71.0-2 > severity: wishist > > (if this should go to debootstrap, then please reassign) > > Many packages now expect a UTF-8 locale and we have to manually specify > LC_ALL=C.UTF-8. I think it is better to make C.UTF-8 as the default > locale for chroots to avoid fixing so many packages. The request is not very clear, so let me try to run it down. If it is about binary packages, then that cannot be done, please refer to policy ยง9.9. I'm assuming, though, that this is related to source packages and building them? In that case as josch has mentioned package cannot assume that anything will set up their environment as they should (still) support being called simply as debian/rules, which is the only defined entry point. In addition C.UTF-8 locales provided by default were a Debianism not until recently, and even now might be a glibc-ism. So not something that even dpkg-buildpackage might be able to rely on, given that it is being used beyond glibc and Debian. If a (binary/source) package requires the current locale to be UTF-8 then it should set it itself. Even debootstrap might be able to set a default, but that does not mean the user might not modify it later on. So as things stand now I don't think this can be fixed centrally, and I'm in principle planning on closing this report in a bit if no clarifications or compelling arguments are put forwards. Thanks, Guillem
