On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 09:07, Gioele Barabucci <gio...@svario.it> wrote: > > Hi, > > setting LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 in d/rules is a common way to fix many > reproducibility problems. It is also, in general, a more sane way to > build packages, in comparison to using whatever locale settings happen > to be set during a build. However, sprinkling a variant of `export > LC_ALL=C.UTF-8` in every d/rules is error-prone and a waste of > maintainers' time. > > Would it be possible to set in stone that packages are supposed to > always be built in an environment where LC_ALL=C.UTF-8, or, in other > words, that builders must set LC_ALL=C.UTF-8? > > In which document should this rule be stated? Policy?
This makes sense to me, seems similar enough to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
