[Followups set to -devel, please respect] Ashley brought this up on debian-x:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:58:11AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > I'm not sure whether it's worth mentioning but I found a *small* bug in > building the packages. I'm not sure whether something should be done in > the Makefile or if it's common practice that I wasn't aware of. > > Regardless, this is the situation: > > Some languages have different sort orderings. If the package is being > built outside of LANG=C and the sort ordering is different (say, > capitals don't come first) then the test of comparing MANIFEST lists > fails. > > Now, whether LANG=C should be set in the Makefile or if building a > package when LANG!=C is incredibly stupid, I don't know. I just thought > it should be mentioned. Do we have a policy on this? I've had a quick scan through the packaging manual, and I can't see it. My gut feeling is that maybe package builds should be run with LANG=C, since to try to get them running in any locale requires some quite complex testing from the maintainer (e.g. the issue above would have been hard to spot). Jules