On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 07:36:40PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > The failing test seems to be breaking at the point where it calls
> > gtk_new_attach (which is where the language is set). In this case, it calls
> > it with a NULL "lang" setting, which causes gtkspell to try looking at the
> > LANG environment variable. If this is not set, it falls back to "en".
> 
> It's looking for an English dictionary, such as in the myspell-en-us
> or hunspell-en-us packages. Building with either of those makes the
> tests succeed.

Aha.. good catch. So it sounds like we just need to Build-Depend on an
english dictionary package. Is it worth adding alternative build-deps on all
suitable packages[0], or just a specific one do you think?

> It would probably also be good to set LC_ALL=C for the test suite
> so that user locale settings don't affect the build. (Setting LC_ALL=en_US
> or something like that works too, but then we need the locales package
> or perl will complain about unknown locale settings.)

Yes, that sounds like a good idea.

[0] Perhaps: "myspell-en-us | myspell-dictionary-en | hunspell-dictionary-en",
a specific package plus the virtual packages provided by myspell and
hunspell dictionaries.
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