app-misc/gramps: tests: do not rely on presence of en_US.UTF-8 locale

Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>

2 files changed, 42 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/app-misc/gramps/files/gramps-5.1.3-test_locale.patch b/app-misc/gramps/files/gramps-5.1.3-test_locale.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..40eba66dd216
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/gramps/files/gramps-5.1.3-test_locale.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+GEDCOM-import tests explicitly set the locale to en_US.UTF8 because they
+assume a US date and time format. That locale is not guaranteed to be
+present and checking that in ebuild is a hassle, therefore use C.UTF8
+instead - it's similar enough.
+
+--- a/data/tests/imp_sample.gramps
++++ b/data/tests/imp_sample.gramps
+@@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@
+       </style>
+     </note>
+     <note handle="_000000f9000000f9" change="1591544255" id="N0036" type="General">
+-      <text>Objects referenced by this note were missing in a file imported on 12/25/1999 12:00:00 AM.</text>
++      <text>Objects referenced by this note were missing in a file imported on 12/25/99 00:00:00.</text>
+     </note>
+   </notes>
+ </database>
+--- a/gramps/plugins/test/imports_test.py
++++ b/gramps/plugins/test/imports_test.py
+@@ -51,10 +51,7 @@
+ # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 
+ # These tests assume a US date and time format.
+-try:
+-    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.utf8')
+-except locale.Error:     # seems to fail on Windows system for some reason
+-    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'English_United States')
++locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C.utf8')
+ 
+ 
+ def mock_time(*args):
diff --git a/app-misc/gramps/gramps-5.1.3.ebuild b/app-misc/gramps/gramps-5.1.3.ebuild
index 9908893b3c33..0c5ddbf87810 100644
--- a/app-misc/gramps/gramps-5.1.3.ebuild
+++ b/app-misc/gramps/gramps-5.1.3.ebuild
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ BDEPEND="test? ( ${RDEPEND}
 	')
 )"
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-5.1.3-test_locale.patch
+)
+
 python_prepare_all() {
 	# Install documentation to the proper location. This can't be done
 	# easily with a patch because we substitute in the ${PF} variable,
@@ -67,10 +71,14 @@ python_test_all() {
 	rm -rf "${S}/build" && ln -s "${BUILD_DIR}" "${S}"/build || \
 		die "Failed to symlink build directory to source directory"
 
-	# FIXME: some of the tests fail if the locale 'en_US.UTF-8' is absent,
-	# at least as of 5.1.2 this failure does not propagate back to this
-	# function but we should still handle this properly somehow.
-	esetup.py test
+	# Set a sane default locale for the tests which do not explicitly set one.
+	local -x LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+
+	# Note that as of 5.1.3, test failures do not actually propagate back
+	# to this function. For now this is fortunate because the test suite
+	# does not handle the absence of bsddb3 well, in the long run however
+	# this should be fixed.
+	esetup.py test || die
 }
 
 # Ugly hack to work around Bug #717922