Missing static translations in .desktop files

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

So, it looks like the issue here is that "dh --with gnome" runs dh_translations, but the package is in universe so it doesn't actually use language packs.

This might be sufficient justification for us to add "X-Ubuntu-Use-Langpack: yes" to debian/control.in for all of these Debian GNOME packages in universe. We talked about doing that earlier this year.

This is going to be a huge pain to fix for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS though.

@Jeremy: Another option would be to prevent dh_translations from running. Sounds easier to me.

What's the reason for considering the langpacks for this universe package?

I guess you are suggesting we modify the Debian GNOME universe packages to add this to debian/rules instead.

override_dh_translations:

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Do you have any positives or negatives we should consider before deciding whether to opt these in to language packs?

https://trello.com/c/R7JSYTT8/45-use-ubuntu-langpacks-for-gnome-universe

On 2018-09-02 17:58, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I guess you are suggesting we modify the Debian GNOME universe packages
> to add this to debian/rules instead.
>
> override_dh_translations:

Yes, that's the alternative I had in mind.

> Do you have any positives or negatives we should consider before deciding
> whether to opt these in to language packs?
>
> https://trello.com/c/R7JSYTT8/45-use-ubuntu-langpacks-for-gnome-universe

Wasn't aware of that card. I have no strong opinion on the topic. If I recall it correctly, the packages where we currently make use of "X-Ubuntu-Use-Langpack: yes" are packages which were previously in main, and thus we had existing Ubuntu only translations which we can keep making use of that way. But I don't see anything which prevents us from enabling the langpacks for more packages.

As you already mentioned, backporting a change to 18.04 would be tricky. Maybe it would be wise to override dh_translations in bionic, and enable langpacks going forward.

If enabling langpacks for new GNOME packages in 18.10, please remember that LP templates need to be created.

This bug was fixed in the package geary - 0.12.4-2

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geary (0.12.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick 3 patches to fix build with webkit2gtk 2.22
  * Bump minimum libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev to 2.22

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:03:58 -0400

An upload of geary to bionic-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "Wrong version number for upload which sorts > cosmic".

A bionic fix is possibly in progress via bug #1815626.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/geary/+bug/1815626/comments/11

Hello Pavel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted geary into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geary/0.12.4-4~ubuntu18.04.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

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I downloaded and extracted the geary_0.12.4-4~ubuntu18.04.3_amd64.deb file from bionic-proposed and confirm that the upstream translations are preserved in both the .desktop files and in the geary.mo files in /usr/share/locale.

This bug was fixed in the package geary - 0.12.4-4~ubuntu18.04.3

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geary (0.12.4-4~ubuntu18.04.3) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Amr Ibrahim ]
  * Backport to bionic (LP: #1815626)

  [ Gunnar Hjalmarsson ]
  * Handle translations for bionic (LP: #1779574):
    - debian/control.in, debian/control:
      - Don't enable language packs.
    - debian/rules:
      - Prevent dh_translations from removing upstream translations
        from the .desktop files.

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:49:05 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for geary has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.