On 1.6.2017 20:49, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:26:55AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I think it is better if the build system sets LANG=C.UTF-8, not the
> python specific macros.
Yeah, setting it through python macros would mean that e.g. any
python program invoked during the build would see the obsolete non-utf8
encoding. Seems better to just set LANG=C.UTF-8 globally.
Who could make that happen? Should I propose this at devel@?
Zbyszek
>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Pythonistas.
>>
>> Regarding our Python 3 C.UTF-8 locale coercing [1], aka PEP 538 [2].
>>
>> As you probably know, we build RPM packages with the C locale. So everytime
>> we use python3 in the spec file, the coercing message is shown. This can be
>> more problematic than just spamming the build logs, see for example the
>> related rpmlint bug [3][4].
>>
>> Our macros, such as %{python3_sitelib}, %{python3_version} etc. all call
>> python3 and generate the warning. Should we "fix" our macros to set the
LANG
>> to C.UTF-8?
>>
>> If we change the %{__python3} macro entirely, we might get rid of all of
>> those warnings and we will workaround the fact that we build RPM packages
>> with the C locale. On the other hand the packager would not be able to set a
>> desired locale because it will always be overwritten:
>>
>> # The crazy test suite needs Czech locale
>> LANG=cs_CZ.utf8 %{__python3} -m pytest
>>
>> Will become:
>>
>> LANG=cs_CZ.utf8 LANG=C.utf8 /usr/bin/python3 -m pytest
>>
>> So I would not do that.
>>
>> But we can change all other macros in /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.python3
>> to set the UTF-8 locale. Would that be wise? Desired?
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>> [1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/python3_c.utf-8_locale
>> [2]
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/
>> [3]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457786
>> [4]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436345
>>
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