Flatpak/Flathub build about celestia HOT 12 CLOSED

We don't have human resources to maintain additional packaging. If want to volunteer we'll be grateful.

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A quick search of Flatpak and locales suggests that there have been numerous issues regarding Flatpak and mixed locales, e.g. flatpak/flatpak#3712. Since your locale output indicates a mixture of English and Bulgarian locales, maybe this is causing issues.

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@faveoled please check #1988, Flatpaks are provided by Fedora community.

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@375gnu Thanks, didn't know about that. But what about Flathub submission?

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I've created a manifest for Celestia and a PR to get it on flathub: flathub/flathub#4955
@375gnu is this okay with you?
Currently it uses cmake which looks like isn't in a stable release yet.

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I'm fine with this. @ajtribick @levinli303 any objections from your side?

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looks good to me.

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I don't want to open a new issue about this so I will write it here:

After trying to test the flatpak build (GTK, Qt and SDL) I was always getting a CTD, Celestia didn't even started. The problem was related to my locale settings:
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8. Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead. If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual for more information.

The output of localectl is:
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en VC Keymap: (unset) X11 Layout: us,bg X11 Model: pc105 X11 Variant: ,phonetic X11 Options: grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll

And locale shows:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=bg_BG.UTF-8 LC_TIME=bg_BG.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=bg_BG.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT=bg_BG.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=

The problem was fixed by adding the following variable: --env=LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 which was suggested by @ColinKinloch

This problem never happened before. I have 78 flatpaks and Celestia is the first one where I need to use such workarounds. This leads me to believe that the problem is probably not caused by the flatpak build.

What could be a proper solution for this?

EDIT: Here is the link to our discussion: flathub/flathub#4955 (comment)

Thanks in advance!

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We don't maintain the Flatpak.

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We don't maintain the Flatpak.

I know that. I'm asking if the locale error is relevant to Celestia in any way.

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A quick search of Flatpak and locales suggests that there have been numerous issues regarding Flatpak and mixed locales, e.g. flatpak/flatpak#3712. Since your locale output indicates a mixture of English and Bulgarian locales, maybe this is causing issues.

Thanks for pointing that out! Well, that was the answer I needed, sorry to bother you and thanks about your commitment to Celestia. 😃

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Actually it was my fault. After creating /etc/locale.conf the issue solved itself. Even changing the language with the variable LANGUAGE works too.

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