reassign 895446 libfontconfig1 2.13.0-2
severity 895470 serious
retitle 895470 fontconfig-2.13.0 globally sets the locale from the environment
forcemerge 895470 895446
affects 895470 + gitk
tags 895470 + patch fixed-upstream
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>> gitk no longer successfully starts here. When I run it from a terminal,
>> I get
>>
>> $ gitk
>> Error in startup script: bad screen distance "4.5"
>> while executing
>> "$canv conf -scrollregion [list 0 0 $canvxmax $ymax]"
>> (procedure "setcanvscroll" line 6)
>> invoked from within
>> "setcanvscroll"
>> (procedure "initlayout" line 17)
>> invoked from within
>> "initlayout"
>> (procedure "getcommits" line 4)
>> invoked from within
>> "getcommits {}"
>> (file "/usr/bin/gitk" line 12613)
>> $ echo $?
>> 1
>
> I'm not yet able to reproduce this. The package works fine for me.
Ah, I figured it out. It's from libfontconfig's new setlocale() call.
I wasn't able to reproduce it because my locale uses a different decimal
separator.
