Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.devel > #112052

Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

Show all headers | View raw

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 09:07, Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> setting LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 in d/rules is a common way to fix many
> reproducibility problems. It is also, in general, a more sane way to
> build packages, in comparison to using whatever locale settings happen
> to be set during a build. However, sprinkling a variant of `export
> LC_ALL=C.UTF-8` in every d/rules is error-prone and a waste of
> maintainers' time.
>
> Would it be possible to set in stone that packages are supposed to
> always be built in an environment where LC_ALL=C.UTF-8, or, in other
> words, that builders must set LC_ALL=C.UTF-8?
>
> In which document should this rule be stated? Policy?

This makes sense to me, seems similar enough to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

Back to linux.debian.devel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> - 2024-06-06 08:20 +0200
  Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 11:20 +0200
  Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 11:50 +0200
    Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 12:10 +0200
      Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 13:00 +0200
        Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 13:40 +0200
        Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 17:00 +0200
      Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 16:40 +0200
        Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2024-06-06 16:50 +0200
        Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2024-06-07 14:40 +0200
          Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2024-06-07 15:40 +0200
            Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2024-06-07 15:50 +0200
              Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-06-07 17:50 +0200
                Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-06-10 17:30 +0200
                Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> - 2024-06-11 11:30 +0200
              Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2024-07-02 03:50 +0200
                Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-07-02 11:00 +0200
                Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2024-07-02 14:40 +0200
                Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2024-07-06 13:20 +0200
                Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2024-08-03 19:20 +0200
                Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-08-03 20:20 +0200
                Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-02-23 13:50 +0100
          Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> - 2024-06-07 16:20 +0200
          Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-06-07 18:30 +0200
            Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2024-08-03 15:30 +0200
      Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> - 2024-06-06 18:50 +0200
      Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 19:00 +0200
        Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2024-06-07 10:40 +0200
    Locale sanitizer (Was: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package  building) Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org> - 2024-06-06 14:50 +0200
      Re: Locale sanitizer (Was: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package  building) Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-06-06 15:40 +0200
  Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2024-06-18 00:40 +0200

csiph-web