Previews not using DDTP translations for descriptions (like the Software Centre or Synaptic do)

[Pierre Slamich]

The Unity Previews lens is not using DDTP translations for package descriptions (like the Software Centre or Synaptic do).
While application titles are translated, translations of the descriptions are not fetched at all (while they have been translated for a while).

Two questions :
- in the lens, where are the titles fetched from ?
  --The pristine DDTP (http://translations.launchpad.net/ddtp-ubuntu/raring/)
  --the tweaked version for Ubuntu called app-install-data (https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/app-install-data-ubuntu/+pots/app-install-data) which doesn't cover all packages, and not their full descriptions.

An example: XScavenger
- Marked as translated in the DDTP both in Quantal and Raring: http://nightmonkey.ubuntu.hu/#release=raring&language=fr&view=pack&repo=universe&isok=all&rownumber=100&sortpopcon=dsc&packagename=xscavenger&page=null
-Shown in English in the Lens
-Shown in French in the Software Centre
-Shown in French in Synaptic

Can it be fixed ?

[Pierre Slamich (pierre-slamich)]

Here's an untested patch by MVO (was on a train while sending it)

the attached patch against the "dbus-data-provider" fixes the issue. To test you can run:
$ PYTHONPATH=. ./software-center-dbus
you probably have to kill the old software-center-data provider first.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Confirmed that the patch from mvo fixes the issue ;-)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Pierre Slamich (pierre-slamich)]

I was wondering if it was possible to apply the patch and release it in Raring, before Saucy ?

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

@Pierre: all patches that could go through SRU need to be tested and deployed in the development release first...

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

raring has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the raring task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".