wrongly shipping /usr/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/unity-lens-applications.mo

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I can confirm that this fil is still present in unity-lens-applications 7.1.0+16.10.20160927-0ubuntu2 on Ubuntu artful, based on [1]. Interestingly enough, language-pack-gnome-da-base contains a unity-lens-applications.mo file, albeit in a different directory [2].

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/amd64/unity-lens-applications/filelist
[2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/all/language-pack-gnome-da-base/filelist

unity-lens-files 7.1.0+17.10.20170605-0ubuntu1 also suffers from the same problem.

The original report only emphasizes that the relevant file(s) should be shipped by language-pack-whatever instead.

It does not emphasize enough that "/usr/locale" is the wrong place to put it anyway, it should go under "/usr/share/locale". (I've modified the bug title accordingly.)

I don't particularly care about unity-lens-foo not finding the Danish translation. I don't know what this app is and I can't speak Danish :-P

What I do care about, however, is that these misplaced files break my old habit of typing (and pressing the [TAB] key) "cd /usr/lo[TAB]sh[TAB]" to take me to "/usr/local/share". Autocompletion no longer completes to "local/" with the trailing slash since "locale" is another possibility.

On 2017-09-22 04:28 PM, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> What I do care about, however, is that these misplaced files break my
> old habit of typing (and pressing the [TAB] key) "cd
> /usr/lo[TAB]sh[TAB]" to take me to "/usr/local/share". Autocompletion no
> longer completes to "local/" with the trailing slash since "locale" is
> another possibility.

You have guessed what lead me to filling that LP ;)

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

Still present in bionic.