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

Hello Laura,

I'm not sure if I missed some steps, but I couldn't reproduce this issue.
Yet, I hit another one:

[snipped]

root@a179023d59e0:/webwml# make -j1 -C turkish STRICT_ERROR_CHECKS=1
USE_SAMPLE_FILES=1
make: Entering directory '/webwml/turkish'
make -C po install
make[1]: Entering directory '/webwml/turkish/po'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/webwml/turkish/po'
make -C CD
make[1]: Entering directory '/webwml/turkish/CD'
make -C http-ftp
make[2]: Entering directory '/webwml/turkish/CD/http-ftp'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target
'../../../english/CD/http-ftp/cdimage_mirrors.list', needed by
'index.tr.html'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/webwml/turkish/CD/http-ftp'
make[1]: *** [../../Makefile.common:79: http-ftp] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/webwml/turkish/CD'
make: *** [../Makefile.common:79: CD] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/webwml/turkish'

Here is the verbose part I snipped for convenience:

root@a179023d59e0:/# cd webwml
root@a179023d59e0:/webwml# cat /var/log/apt/history.log | grep Commandline
Commandline: apt-get install -y build-essential vim gettext make perl wml
git wget libxml-rss-perl
root@a179023d59e0:/webwml# git reset --hard
HEAD is now at c28ce7bbd78 (fr) DSA 4223-4225, initial translation
root@a179023d59e0:/webwml# make -j1 -C turkish STRICT_ERROR_CHECKS=1
USE_SAMPLE_FILES=1
make: Entering directory '/webwml/turkish'
make -C po install
make[1]: Entering directory '/webwml/turkish/po'
msgmerge -q templates.tr.po ../../english/po/templates.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o templates.mo -
91 translated messages, 16 fuzzy translations, 12 untranslated messages.
'templates.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/templates.mo'
msgmerge -q bugs.tr.po ../../english/po/bugs.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o bugs.mo -
34 translated messages.
'bugs.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/bugs.mo'
msgmerge -q blends.tr.po ../../english/po/blends.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o blends.mo -
0 translated messages, 18 untranslated messages.
'blends.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/blends.mo'
msgmerge -q cdimage.tr.po ../../english/po/cdimage.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o cdimage.mo -
26 translated messages.
'cdimage.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/cdimage.mo'
msgmerge -q consultants.tr.po ../../english/po/consultants.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o consultants.mo -
15 translated messages.
'consultants.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/consultants.mo'
msgmerge -q countries.tr.po ../../english/po/countries.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o countries.mo -
104 translated messages.
'countries.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/countries.mo'
msgmerge -q date.tr.po ../../english/po/date.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o date.mo -
38 translated messages.
'date.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/date.mo'
msgmerge -q distrib.tr.po ../../english/po/distrib.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o distrib.mo -
46 translated messages.
'distrib.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/distrib.mo'
msgmerge -q doc.tr.po ../../english/po/doc.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o doc.mo -
16 translated messages, 2 fuzzy translations, 14 untranslated messages.
'doc.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/doc.mo'
msgmerge -q l10n.tr.po ../../english/po/l10n.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o l10n.mo -
21 translated messages.
'l10n.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/l10n.mo'
msgmerge -q langs.tr.po ../../english/po/langs.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o langs.mo -
86 translated messages.
'langs.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/langs.mo'
msgmerge -q legal.tr.po ../../english/po/legal.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o legal.mo -
25 translated messages.
'legal.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/legal.mo'
msgmerge -q mailinglists.tr.po ../../english/po/mailinglists.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o mailinglists.mo -
20 translated messages.
'mailinglists.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/mailinglists.mo'
msgmerge -q newsevents.tr.po ../../english/po/newsevents.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o newsevents.mo -
24 translated messages, 7 fuzzy translations, 37 untranslated messages.
'newsevents.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/newsevents.mo'
msgmerge -q organization.tr.po ../../english/po/organization.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o organization.mo -
49 translated messages, 17 fuzzy translations, 22 untranslated messages.
'organization.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/organization.mo'
msgmerge -q partners.tr.po ../../english/po/partners.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o partners.mo -
0 translated messages, 62 untranslated messages.
'partners.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/partners.mo'
msgmerge -q ports.tr.po ../../english/po/ports.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o ports.mo -
26 translated messages.
'ports.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ports.mo'
msgmerge -q security.tr.po ../../english/po/security.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o security.mo -
25 translated messages, 1 untranslated message.
'security.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/security.mo'
msgmerge -q stats.tr.po ../../english/po/stats.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o stats.mo -
0 translated messages, 53 untranslated messages.
'stats.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/stats.mo'
msgmerge -q vendors.tr.po ../../english/po/vendors.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o vendors.mo -
13 translated messages.
'vendors.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/vendors.mo'
msgmerge -q vote.tr.po ../../english/po/vote.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o vote.mo -
13 translated messages, 4 fuzzy translations, 46 untranslated messages.
'vote.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/vote.mo'
msgmerge -q wnpp.tr.po ../../english/po/wnpp.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o wnpp.mo -
16 translated messages, 11 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.
'wnpp.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/wnpp.mo'
msgmerge -q others.tr.po ../../english/po/others.pot | \
            msgfmt --statistics -o others.mo -
48 translated messages, 10 fuzzy translations, 17 untranslated messages.
'others.mo' -> '../../locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/others.mo'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/webwml/turkish/po'
(cd ./.. && ./build_vcs_cache.pl)
Initialising VCS cache for performance
 ... done
wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2019 -o UNDEFuTR:social_contract.tr.html@g+w
social_contract.wml
wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2019 -o UNDEFuTR:index.tr.html@g+w   index.wml
wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2019 -o UNDEFuTR:support.tr.html@g+w   support.wml
wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2019 -o UNDEFuTR:social_contract.1.0.tr.html@g+w
social_contract.1.0.wml
make -C CD
make[1]: Entering directory '/webwml/turkish/CD'
wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2019 -o UNDEFuTR:index.tr.html@g+w   index.wml -I
../../english/CD/
make -C http-ftp
make[2]: Entering directory '/webwml/turkish/CD/http-ftp'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target
'../../../english/CD/http-ftp/cdimage_mirrors.list', needed by
'index.tr.html'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/webwml/turkish/CD/http-ftp'
make[1]: *** [../../Makefile.common:79: http-ftp] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/webwml/turkish/CD'
make: *** [../Makefile.common:79: CD] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/webwml/turkish'

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 3:56 PM Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear Turkish Translation team,
>
> While working on rebuilding the Debian website [1] within stretch and
> buster, Cyril Brulebois detected that the Turkish subdirectory doesn't
> build in buster, apparently due to possible locale issues.
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml
>
> The .wmlrc file in that folder orders to build the site using the tr_TR
> locale:
>
> turkish/.wmlrc:-D CUR_LOCALE=tr_TR
>
> But Perl complains about that:
>
>      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).
>
> More details on bug report #924365
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=924365
>
> I've done a "file" command on all the .po and .wml files in the /turkish
> folder of the website and all of them seem to be UTF-8 encoded
> (charset=utf-8), so I guess it's safe to change the .wmlrc file to tell
> the site to build using tr_TR.UTF-8 locale.
>
> Could you confirm?
>
> Kind regards,
> --
> Laura Arjona Reina
> https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
>
>