On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:57:42 +0200 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote:

> As long as the project considers debian/rules the main entry point to a
> package build, I'm not planning on predefining new general purpose
> environment variables from dpkg-buildpackage that would otherwise not
> be set by the builder.
> 
> The distinction here would be something like LC_*, against something
> like CC on a cross-compilation, which you need to set no matter what.

Having dozens, if not hundreds of packages set LC_ALL = C.UTF-8 in
debian/rules doesn't strike me as a great solution.

Guillem, if I understand you correctly you are against setting this via
dpkg-buildpackage. What would you suggest instead?

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