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

[Simon Déziel]

unity-lens-applications is apparently wrongly shipping /usr/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/unity-lens-applications.mo
This is the only translation file (.mo) shipped by unity-lens-applications. It seems that the other translation files are shipped by language-pack-gnome-CC-base where CC correspond to the language. See https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=unity-lens-applications.mo&mode=&suite=xenial&arch=any

Additional information:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04

$ apt-cache policy unity-lens-applications
unity-lens-applications:
  Installed: 7.1.0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 7.1.0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 7.1.0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     7.1.0+16.04.20160217.2-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unity-lens-applications 7.1.0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-83.106-generic 4.4.70
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-83-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jul 3 18:01:27 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-06 (209 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20161206)
SourcePackage: unity-lens-applications
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

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

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

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

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

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.

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

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 ;)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Paulo Matias (paulo-matias)]

Still present in bionic.