Add checkbox '[X] Strip translations and changelogs from packages' on the +edit page for the PPA
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currrently pkgstripfiles command isn't used automatically in PPA builds and there are no possibility to enable pkgbinarymangler for teams PPAs :(
I'm Ubuntu-based distribution (Baltix GNU/Linux) developer and I need a possibility to strip translations and changelogs from some packages, which I patch, but translations strings still are identical to official Ubuntu packages, see for example https:/
I've found workaround - created PPA named oem-archive, this works, but not with first package (thanks for tip, WGrant), see https:/
Julian Edwards promised to add the checkbox on the +edit page for the PPA:
[X] Strip translations from packages covered by Ubuntu language packs
But it seems Julian forgot about this, so, I'm reopening this bug :)
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote on 2010-07-07:
> The suggestion of adding the checkbox above is the one I had in mind,
> we can put it on the +edit page for the PPA and allow people to choose.
summary: |
- Fine grained pkgbinarymangler invocation + Add checkbox '[X] Strip translations and changelogs from packages' on + the +edit page for the PPA |
description: | updated |
Changed in launchpad: | |
importance: | High → Low |
description: | updated |
Of course an even more elegant approach would be to add a new flag
[X] Strip translations from packages covered by Ubuntu language packs
to a PPA configuration and expose this as a flag "EnablePkgStrip translations: True" in /CurrentlyBuilding. This requires a magnitude more work I assume, but would be even more flexible for both general developers as well as OEM projects.