Found it; there is a separate list of patches to apply in debian/rules. I forgot to add my patch to it. I don't understand why the debian/patch/series file is not sufficient, but that's how this package seems to work.
New debdiff coming very soon! -- locale._parse_localename fails when localename does not contain encoding information (was: alacarte crashed with ValueError in _parse_localename() ) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223281 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
