Hmm.. I saw in the buildlog from the successful build that it skipped the Chinese translation of a particular string. The reason proved to be a missing '<' character, i.e. the translated string contains an instance of '/em>' instead of '</em>'. And that's the correct behavior; it should check the Mallard syntax and skip translations with invalid syntax.
Anyway, I added the missing '<', and then ubuntu-docs built with the itstool version in focal. So the direct reason for the build failure is a syntactically incorrect translation. OTOH, translators make mistakes, and a bad translation *should not* make the whole package build to fail. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libxml2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1869814 Title: ubuntu-docs build failure - possible solution Status in itstool package in Ubuntu: New Status in libxml2 package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: ubuntu-docs failed to build during the second Focal Fossa test rebuild: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test- rebuild-20200327-focal/+build/18982738 It was itstool which failed to generate the localized zh_CN pages. If dropping zh_CN from ubuntu-help/Makefile.am, ubuntu-docs builds. But excluding the Chinese pages is apparently not an acceptable solution. The itstool package in focal {build-,}depends on python3. I built itstool in a PPA with python2 instead, and in that PPA ubuntu-docs built fine without modifications: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntu-docs/+packages So the root cause seems to lie neither in ubuntu-docs nor itstool. I would suspect that python3-libxml2 is buggy, but since itstool was built against python2 in eoan, it's hard to tell if it's a regression. Would building itstool against python2 be an acceptable workaround in focal? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/itstool/+bug/1869814/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
