I think it is better if the build system sets LANG=C.UTF-8, not the
python specific macros.
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Pythonistas.
>
> Regarding our Python 3 C.UTF-8 locale coercing [1], aka PEP 538 [2].
>
> As you probably know, we build RPM packages with the C locale. So everytime
> we use python3 in the spec file, the coercing message is shown. This can be
> more problematic than just spamming the build logs, see for example the
> related rpmlint bug [3][4].
>
> Our macros, such as %{python3_sitelib}, %{python3_version} etc. all call
> python3 and generate the warning. Should we "fix" our macros to set the LANG
> to C.UTF-8?
>
> If we change the %{__python3} macro entirely, we might get rid of all of
> those warnings and we will workaround the fact that we build RPM packages
> with the C locale. On the other hand the packager would not be able to set a
> desired locale because it will always be overwritten:
>
> # The crazy test suite needs Czech locale
> LANG=cs_CZ.utf8 %{__python3} -m pytest
>
> Will become:
>
> LANG=cs_CZ.utf8 LANG=C.utf8 /usr/bin/python3 -m pytest
>
> So I would not do that.
>
> But we can change all other macros in /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.python3
> to set the UTF-8 locale. Would that be wise? Desired?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/python3_c.utf-8_locale
> [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457786
> [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436345
>
> --
> Miro Hrončok
> --
> Phone: +420777974800
> IRC: mhroncok
> _______________________________________________
> python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
> To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
_______________________________________________
python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
