#1073471 quickml: FTBFS: lib/quickml/gettext.rb:30:in `load': messages.ja:5: invalid multibyte char (EUC-JP) (SyntaxError)

Package:
src:quickml
Source:
src:quickml
Submitter:
Lucas Nussbaum
Date:
2026-06-02 13:06:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1073471#5
Date:
2024-06-16 13:53:50 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.


Relevant part (hopefully):
The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2024/06/15/quickml_0.8-2_unstable.log

All bugs filed during this archive rebuild are listed at:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-20240615;users=lucas@debian.org
or:
https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=na&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&fusertag=only&fusertagtag=ftbfs-20240615&fusertaguser=lucas@debian.org&allbugs=1&cseverity=1&ctags=1&caffected=1#results

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

If you reassign this bug to another package, please mark it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.
#1073471#14
Date:
2026-06-01 20:06:26 UTC
From:
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I've stumbled upon this while merging quickml for Ubuntu 26.10, and fixed
it. The root cause is that patch 0001 tagged the character encoding of
message.ja as EUC-JP, which *used* to be correct, but has since changed, as
the file is now UTF-8. This means the multibyte UTF-8 Japanese in the file
is no longer valid EUC-JP, causing build failure.

Another build error occurred due to attempted chowning in d/rules, I
removed this entirely (the chowning is already done in postinst, making it
redundant regardless of the build failure).

See attached patch.

Thanks
Grayson Wolf
#1073471#19
Date:
2026-06-01 20:20:56 UTC
From:
To:
On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 04:06:26PM -0400, Grayson Wolf wrote:

-       chown list:list $(DESTDIR)/var/lib/quickml
-       chown list:list $(DESTDIR)/var/log/quickml

Hi. I don't think this is correct.

The intent is for those directories to be list:list inside the .deb,
and a postinst can't change what is inside the .deb.

The orthodox fix here is to use "Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets"

(If there is a build failure, it's because "no" has become the default,
but maintainers can still use a value different than "no").

Thanks.
#1073471#24
Date:
2026-06-02 13:04:53 UTC
From:
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Hi, thank you for the feedback. I've adjusted the patch accordingly.

Thanks.