Comment 8 for bug 1947424

I'm quite sure setting it in a conffile loaded by --configfile works. It
doesn't in the standard /etc/pbuilderrc and .pbuilderrc.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2021, 7:51 pm Jessica Clarke, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> And re being "a serious limitation", I agree it's less than ideal, but
> it should not be an issue for any policy-conforming package, for which
> not building under the non-UTF-8 C locale is RC-buggy.
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> Title:
> Cannot set pbuilder build locale
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> Status in pbuilder package in Ubuntu:
> New
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> Bug description:
> The build locale cannot be set with pbuilder and always defaults to
> "C" (for both LANG and LC_ALL on Launchpad builds) rather than to
> "C.UTF-8" as used by sbuild for all official Debian and Ubuntu builds.
> This causes FTBFS of various packages that depend on the correct
> locale being set on the build system, often noticeable with the test
> suites of Python packages for instance.
>
> The attached patch changes only five lines of code (pbuilder-
> buildpackage and pbuilderrc) to allow easy setting of the pbuilder
> build locale. Based on local testing the patch works as intended, in
> that packages depending on the correct locale which FTBFS using
> unpatched pbuilder (yet build successfully with sbuild on Launchpad)
> now also build successfully with the local patched pbuilder. Please
> consider applying the patch.
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