[RFE] Automatically update the Ubuntu version string in ubuntu-release-upgrader

[AsciiWolf]

Every time there is a new Ubuntu release, one string needs to be manually translated although the only thing that is changing is the Ubuntu version. Please, consider updating this string automatically based on a translated template. It would help many translators.

This string is:
<b><big>Upgrading Ubuntu to version xx.yy</big></b>

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Any news about this?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Is there an example of how to do this that you could point me at? Thanks!

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Well, I didn't have time to look into the source code, but the problem is that instead of having something like "<b><big>Upgrading Ubuntu to version %s</big></b>", there is a hardcoded version that is changed every time a ubuntu-release-upgrader is released for a new Ubuntu version.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Steve, python-apt has the same issue, see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/1727470

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Would it be possible to triage that bug report as well?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thoughts:

DistUpgradeViewKDE.py includes a line which replaces "Ubuntu" with "Ubuntu xx.xx":

self.window_main.label_title.setText(self.window_main.label_title.text().replace("Ubuntu", name))

So if the title would be changed to "Upgrading Ubuntu to version %s", I suppose that "%s" could be replaced with the new version in a similar way in DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py respective DistUpgradeViewKDE.py. In that case the new version must be made available in those files somehow. (I don't think it is at the moment.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-release-upgrader - 1:19.10.8

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ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:19.10.8) eoan; urgency=medium

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Factor the release version out of the to-be-translated strings, so
    that translators don't have to chase updating this for every release.
    LP: #1727472.
  * Update the pot file in the source, evidently not done for the past 3
    years.

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:59:08 -0700

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Great work, thanks! Would it be possible to also fix the similar issue in python-apt (see my comment #4 in this issue)?