FTBFS of bzr-svn in ~bzr PPA (lucid,maverick)

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 03/11/2012 07:32 PM, Max Bowsher wrote:
> On 11/03/12 15:00, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> On 03/11/2012 03:43 PM, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> On 11/03/12 14:37, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are some remaining issues related to the unicode filename handling
>>>> in 2.5. In the bzr-svn Debian package, I'm running the testsuite with
>>>> LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 (and "locales" installed) to work around this kind of
>>>> failure.
>>> *Aha*. I would not be surprised in the least if it turned out there was
>>> some change in libc across the maverick/natty boundary and C.UTF-8
>>> doesn't work before it.  I will investigate that...
>> This is all in libsvn (also where the exception is being raised from). I
>> suspect the culprit is more likely to be in there somewhere.
> No, we're definitely in libc/locales land here:
>
>
> (maverick-amd64-sbuild)root at chimaera:/# locale -a
> C
> POSIX
>
>
> (natty-amd64-sbuild)root at chimaera:/# locale -a
> C
> C.UTF-8
> POSIX
I think C.UTF-8 is fairly new, the discussion around adding it in Debian 
was from somewhere last year I think. You might have to fall back to 
en_US.UTF-8 instead.

Cheers,

Jelmer