Re: Fixing evolution-data-server on core-updates

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello Timothy,

Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:

> From bcd753f777687c52bba6b9bf4184879e69990118 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:47:44 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: evolution-data-server: Fix locale issue.
>
> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (evolution-data-server)[arguments]: Add a phase
> that patches the source code to fix a locale issue.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> index eb251498e9..a34adc4006 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> @@ -5168,6 +5168,21 @@ Exchange, Last.fm, IMAP/SMTP, Jabber, SIP and Kerberos.")
>                             "tests/libedata-cal/test-cal-cache-utils.c")
>                (("/bin/rm") (which "rm")))
>              #t))
> +         ;; This phase fixes locale canonicalization and prevents a few test
> +         ;; failures.  The bug has been reported upstream:
> +         ;; <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/issues/137>.
> +         (add-after 'unpack 'patch-locale-canonicalization
> +           (lambda _
> +             (substitute* "src/libedataserver/e-collator.c"
> +               (("len = uloc_canonicalize \\(posix_locale,.*" x)
> +                ((lambda (xs) (string-join xs "\n" 'suffix))
> +                 (list
> +                  "if (g_ascii_strcasecmp(posix_locale, \"C\") == 0 ||"
> +                  "    g_ascii_strcasecmp(posix_locale, \"POSIX\") == 0) {"
> +                  "  posix_locale = \"en_US_POSIX\";"
> +                  "}"
> +                  x))))

LGTM, thanks for fixing it!

Ludo’.