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language-pack-gnome-en package

German strings in deja-dup.mo for en_GB

  1. Hirsute (21.04)
  2. Bug #1928931
Bug #1928931 reported by Iain Lane
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language-pack-gnome-en (Ubuntu)
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Iain Lane

Bug Description

[ Description ]

Some German strings were accidentally translated under en_GB. They affect the default Ubuntu install - some of them are strings which are displayed as a notification some time after first logging in, so it's quite visible. See the attached screenshot.

[ Fix ]

Revert the German and go back to the proper English text. The way to fix langpacks is to upload the language-pack-gnome-XX package which replaces files in language-pack-gnome-XX-base.

[ Devel release ]

I'd like to propose to binary copy forward, and let the normal langpack release schedule take care of eventually dominating these away in impish.

[ QA ]

To verify the diff, compare deja-dup.po from language-pack-gnome-en-base to the one in this upload. You'll have to do that manually.

  0. Be in en_GB.
  1. Install the SRU
  2. In an Ubuntu Desktop session, open a terminal and run `deja-dup --prompt`.
  3. Note the buttons in the notification that shows up. They should be in English.

[ What could go wrong ]

1. There could be other instances of this in different packages we haven't noticed yet
2. If I break the .po file, it could either break the build or the translations at runtime (but this is English, so if we fall back to C it's not too bad)
3. If my diff is wrong then I might have dropped some en_GB translations or made them wrong

See original description
Revision history for this message
Iain Lane (laney) wrote :
Changed in language-pack-gnome-en-base (Ubuntu Hirsute):
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Iain Lane (laney)
Changed in language-pack-gnome-en-base (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Iain Lane (laney)
status: New → In Progress
description: updated
description: updated
affects: language-pack-gnome-en-base (Ubuntu) → language-pack-gnome-en (Ubuntu)
Changed in language-pack-gnome-en (Ubuntu):
assignee: Iain Lane (laney) → nobody
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

hm, do we actually know *why* this happened? Does this mean there is a bug in langpack-o-matic that causes a mix-up of languages? Or was this an issue on the Launchpad translation side of things?
I'd like to understand this better and, if needed, filling in a langpack-o-matic bug for this.

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Iain, or anyone else affected,

Accepted language-pack-gnome-en into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-pack-gnome-en/1:21.10+20210415ubuntu1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. 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!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in language-pack-gnome-en (Ubuntu Hirsute):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-hirsute
Revision history for this message
Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

> hm, do we actually know *why* this happened?

Yes, someone mis-translated the strings on Launchpad. I reverted them all now, but I don't think we have any way of dealing with that happening again, do we?

I've just verified the SRU. I installed language-pack-gnome-en 1:21.10+20210415ubuntu1 and ran deja-dup --prompt. With the SRU the buttons are in English again!

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-hirsute
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-hirsute
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Wait, isn't the version wrong? 1:21.10+20210415ubuntu1.

I'm going to re-upload to the queue with 1:21.04.

Also, can we just run a langpack export for impish to fix this there please? The version is greater than hirsute's now so I can't just copy up.

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Okay, done. I think: remove this, let the removal publish, accept the new one.

Hopefully the ageing period can be waived on that.

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Hmm no, it needs removing first, my upload got rejected.

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