[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Skip test_getsetlocale_issue1813() on Fedora due to setlocale() bug.

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:22:03 +0200, stefan.krah <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/68b5f87566fb
> changeset:   71683:68b5f87566fb
> branch:      3.2
> parent:      71679:1f9ca1819d7c
> user:        Stefan Krah <skrah at bytereef.org>
> date:        Tue Aug 02 01:06:16 2011 +0200
> summary:
>   Skip test_getsetlocale_issue1813() on Fedora due to setlocale() bug.
> See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726536
> 
> files:
>   Lib/test/test_locale.py |  3 +++
>   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/Lib/test/test_locale.py b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
> --- a/Lib/test/test_locale.py
> +++ b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
>  from test.support import run_unittest, verbose
> +from platform import linux_distribution
>  import unittest
>  import locale
>  import sys
> @@ -391,6 +392,8 @@
>          # crasher from bug #7419
>          self.assertRaises(locale.Error, locale.setlocale, 12345)
> 
> +    @unittest.skipIf(linux_distribution()[0] == 'Fedora', "Fedora setlocale() "
> +                     "bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726536")
>      def test_getsetlocale_issue1813(self):
>          # Issue #1813: setting and getting the locale under a Turkish locale
>          oldlocale = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)

Why 'Fedora'?  This bug affects more than just Fedora:  as I reported on
the issue, I'm seeing it on Gentoo as well.  (Also, including the issue
number in the commit message is helpful).

Note that since the bug report says that "Gentoo has been including this
fix for two years", the fact that it is failing on my Gentoo system
would seem to indicate that something about the fix is not right.

So, I'm not sure this skip is even valid.  I'm not sure we've finished
diagnosing the bug.

If there are any helpful tests I can run on Gentoo, please let me know.

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