Re: [Savannah-help-public] Need info on how bzr server is setup for a bzr bugreport.

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

There's no locale.  The 'locales' packages, in particular, is not
installed.

I also think that the GECOS' encoding is generally independant from
the user's current locale.

- Sylvain

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:02:39AM +0200, Jan Djärv wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I recently had a problem where commit to bzr failed.
> Sylvain Beucler correctly assumed non-ascii characters in the
> GECOS-field where the problem and that a bzr was at fault.  I filed
> a bug report on bzr that stated that the bzr server fails when there
> are non-ascii characters in the GECOS field. They now request more
> information, can you help?
> 
> The bug report is here:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/659763
> 
> I qoute the last entry where they request information:
> 
> "I would speculate that Python may run on savannah with the locale set
> such that it expects gecos to be in ascii.  You would think that LANG=
> whatever gets passed across ssh, but perhaps not.  If you can get the
> server-side traceback, which should be in .bzr.log there, that could
> help."
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       Jan D.
>