Bug#924365: www.debian.org: FTBFS in buster: turkish vs. tr_TR locale

Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertags: scripts

Hi,

While working on rebuilding the website within stretch and buster, I've
noticed the following.

The turkish subdirectory doesn't build in buster, apparently due to
possible locale issues:

    (buster-amd64-webwml)kibi@wodi:~/debian-www/buster/webwml$ make -j1 -C turkish STRICT_ERROR_CHECKS=1 USE_SAMPLE_FILES=1
    make: Entering directory '/home/kibi/debian-www/buster/webwml/turkish'
    make -C po install
    make[1]: Entering directory '/home/kibi/debian-www/buster/webwml/turkish/po'
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/kibi/debian-www/buster/webwml/turkish/po'
    wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2019 -o UNDEFuTR:index.tr.html@g+w   index.wml
    ePerl:Error: Perl runtime error (interpreter rc=0)
    
    ---- Contents of STDERR channel: ---------
    Locale 'tr_TR' may not work well.
    The following characters (and maybe others) may not have the same meaning as the Perl program expects:
    I i
    ; codeset=ISO-8859-9
    ------------------------------------------
    ** WML:Break: Error in Pass 3 (rc=1).
    Died at /usr/share/wml/TheWML/Frontends/Wml/Runner.pm line 403.
    	TheWML::Frontends::Wml::Runner::_run_pass(TheWML::Frontends::Wml::Runner=HASH(0x55db148af458), 3, SCALAR(0x55db14e351b8), SCALAR(0x55db14e35188), SCALAR(0x55db14e351a0)) called at /usr/share/wml/TheWML/Frontends/Wml/Runner.pm line 441
    	TheWML::Frontends::Wml::Runner::_passes_loop(TheWML::Frontends::Wml::Runner=HASH(0x55db148af458)) called at /usr/share/wml/TheWML/Frontends/Wml/Runner.pm line 726
    	TheWML::Frontends::Wml::Runner::_output_and_cleanup(TheWML::Frontends::Wml::Runner=HASH(0x55db148af458)) called at /usr/share/wml/TheWML/Frontends/Wml/Runner.pm line 930
    	TheWML::Frontends::Wml::Runner::run_with_ARGV(TheWML::Frontends::Wml::Runner=HASH(0x55db148af458), HASH(0x55db14908ff8)) called at /usr/bin/wml line 47
    make: *** [/home/kibi/debian-www/buster/webwml/english/Makefile:43: index.tr.html] Error 2
    make: Leaving directory '/home/kibi/debian-www/buster/webwml/turkish'


Many languages are using UTF-8 locales, exceptions are the following ones:

    $ git grep CUR_LOCALE -- */.wmlrc|grep -v UTF-8$|grep -v utf8$
    armenian/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=hy_AM
    bulgarian/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=bg_BG
    dutch/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=nl_NL
    hungarian/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=hu_HU
    lithuanian/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=lt_LT
    persian/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=fa_IR
    romanian/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=ro_RO
    slovak/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=sk_SK
    slovene/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=sl_SI
    turkish/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=tr_TR

I suppose contacting translators and checking with them whether ISO-8859-9
is the right encoding to use in our source files, and whether there might
be some issues with Perl, would be a starting point?


Cheers,