Gioele Barabucci:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.9.1
Severity: important
When the debhelper's testsuite is run in an environment where `LC_ALL`
is not `C.UTF-8`, various warnings are printed and some tests fail (for
example those of dh_installchangelogs).
The solution is probably to set `LC_ALL=C.UTF-8`, but where should it be
set? In debian/rules? In the testsuite? In the single tests?
Log of failures (run with `LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8`):
```
[...]
```
Regards,
Hi,
I think the problem is the new changelog pruning test. In that test, we
now generates changelog entries manually via perl using Time::Piece. As
far as I can tell, Time::Piece is respecting locale on output
(strftime). However, d/changelog must always use en_US/en_GB for the
month name and that (correctly) trips dh_installchangelog.
I was hoping it was simple to make Time::Piece generate timestamps in a
specified locale, but I cannot find an option for doing that. So we may
have to solve to forcing that test to run under LC_ALL when generating
the changelog[1].
Can I convince you to do a follow up patch for fixing this.
Thanks,
~Niels
[1]: Ideally, we would have dh_installchangelog run under any locale in
the tests and it should still work. But if it is non-trivially or just
unwieldy, having the entire test run under LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 will suffice.
