Description: No such thing as native2ascii on Debian
 Replace the utf8 to ascii conversion step from native2ascii to iconv.
 FIXME maybe a better patch is to use uni2ascii
 Update: for some reason iconv fails only on buildd (cannot reproduce on
 amd64/sid). See #966670, use -c flag.
Author: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Last-Update: 2020-07-31

--- a/Makefile.common.mk
+++ b/Makefile.common.mk
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@
 		-sourcepath ${PATHTOROOT} $<
 
 .utf-8_properties.properties:
-	native2ascii -encoding UTF8 $< >$@
+	# native2ascii -encoding UTF8 $< >$@
+	# if iconv fails (as is typical with _el), ignore failure. The file won't be useful.
+	iconv -c -f UTF8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT $< >$@ || true
 
 clean:
 	rm -f *~ *.class core *.bak test.*