gdebi FTBFS when the locale is not en_US

This is the log of the succeeded build with locale set to en_US.

Still not fixed in Trusty. Not fixed in Utopic as well.

Fixed in Vivid, thanks. Needs to be fixed in Trusty and Utopic.

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[Impact]

It's impossible to build gdebi from source with the locale other
than en_US in Trusty.

It had been fixed in gdebi 0.9.5.5, which is available in newer
releases, starting from Vivid. The backported fix can be applied
in Trusty.

The debdiff which is attached to this report contains the fix.

[Test Case]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have some non-en_US locale currently set in your system.
   I have ru_RU for example.
2. sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev devscripts build-essential
3. sudo apt-get build-dep gdebi
4. apt-get source gdebi
5. cd gdebi-0.9.5.3ubuntu2
6. debuild -us -uc

The build process will fail as shown in the first log attached
to this report.

[Regression Potential]

The patch only affects a test which is launched during the build,
it doesn't affect runtime at all. The test is passed successfully
with the patch. All the tests are independent from each other, so
the patch can't introduce any regressions to other tests.

Thanks for working on this. Given that version 0.9.5.3ubuntu2 appeared in Trusty -proposed and 0.9.5.3ubuntu1 was also in -proposed, I think a more appropriate version number is 0.9.5.3ubuntu3. Additionally, please change the release from 'UNRELEASED' to 'trusty' or 'trusty-proposed'. After those changes have been made I'll be happy to upload this. Thanks again!

Uploaded for review by the SRU team, thanks again for your work!

Hello Vlad, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gdebi into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/0.9.5.3ubuntu3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Testing in Xubuntu 14.04...

- have ru_RU locale
- apt-get source gdebi (0.9.5.3ubuntu3 from trusty-proposed)
- cd gdebi-0.9.5.3ubuntu3
- debuild -us -uc
- build successful, no more FTBFS

This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.9.5.3ubuntu3

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gdebi (0.9.5.3ubuntu3) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * Backport a fix from 0.9.5.5 to fix FTBFS with non en_US
    locales (LP: #1352322)

 -- Vlad Orlov <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:34:30 -0700

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gdebi has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.