** Description changed:
[Impact]
With version 136 of the dh-translations package, support for the Meson
build system was added. While that change is sufficient for making
dh_translations run successfully for some Meson packages, it's not
sufficient for packages with multiple gettext domains, e.g.
help-[project] domains. As regards POT building, it has so far been
handled for several packages via overrides in debian/rules, but in most
cases the .desktop files in such packages are shipped with upstream
translations and without "X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain", so additional LP
translations are not made available to the users.
- The proposed upload includes fixes from dh-translations 139 which deals
- with it for the remaining Meson packages. This will improve it for a
- number of packages to the extent they are SRUed to bionic.
+ The proposed upload includes fixes from dh-translations 143 (Ubuntu
+ 18.10) which deals with it for the remaining Meson packages. This will
+ improve it for a number of packages to the extent they are SRUed to
+ bionic.
[Test Case]
Let gnome-mines 1:3.28.0-1 be our use case. The file
/usr/share/applications/gnome-mines.desktop
includes upstream translations and no X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain.
Then:
* Install dh-translations 138.1 from bionic-proposed
* Build gnome-mines locally
and find that the .desktop file was stripped from upstream translations
and includes the line:
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-mines
[Regression Potential]
The backported changes address some build issues, and I find it hard to
see how they could cause new ones. In order to minimize the risk, one of
the changes in version 139, which is not considered 'safe safe', is not
included in this proposal.
Also, this package is not for users, so possible issues will at first
hand hit developers who can act on them in connection with uploads.
[Original description]
The gnome.help() meson function creates a help-$project-pot target. This
confuses dh_translations which complains:
dh_translations: more than one meson translation domain found (help-
gnome-calculator,gnome-calculator), don't know which one to use
I think the only consequence of this is that the .desktop doesn't have
its translations stripped and replaced with X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=
This means that Ubuntu translators are unable to update those
translations.
Affected Apps
=============
Therefore, this issue affects GNOME apps in main that use meson and also
include help files.
gnome-control-center is also affected because it happens to have an
extra gettext domain (but does not ship help).
libgweather gets the warning because it has a second gettext domain but
it doesn't ship any .desktop files so I think the warning is harmless.
Suggestion
==========
Maybe dh_translations could just exclude targets that start with "help-".
That would fix most of these cases.
Other Info
==========
This bug is split off LP: #1751820
pkgbinarymanagler 136 in bionic
References
==========
http://mesonbuild.com/Gnome-module.html#gnomeyelp
http://mesonbuild.com/Localisation.html
** Changed in: pkgbinarymangler (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: pkgbinarymangler (Ubuntu Bionic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
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