Translations not updated from upstream

[Ask Hjorth Larsen]

The Danish translation of gnome-sudoku lacks many strings as it has not been synchronized with upstream for years:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-sudoku

Meanwhile gnome-sudoku is and has always been completely translated upstream. Indeed it has been fully translated for every release of GNOME ever since it forked out of gnome-games. Take for example current master:

https://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/gnome-sudoku/master/po/da

It seems there are rather grave problems with translation imports in Launchpad. I reported a similar issue recently for util-linux:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1730793

Who knows how many other packages are affected, and in what languages. I think Launchpad translations should be disabled entirely for all source packages - the translations belong upstream, with the project.

Thanks to scootergrisen for making me aware of this problem.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I think this is going to be solved via the fix of bug #1688994. Once the other bug is fixed, gnome-sudoku needs to be re-built.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

pkgbinarymangler has been fixed, so this will be fixed next time gnome-sudoku is uploaded.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-sudoku - 1:3.27.3-1

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gnome-sudoku (1:3.27.3-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream development release (LP: #1734545)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:49:42 -0500

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Through this upload the source package's po/gnome-sudoku.pot (created 2017-12-10) was imported by Launchpad, which is a step in the right direction. However, the .po files were not imported, even if they are present here:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+upload/17593515/+files/gnome-sudoku_3.27.3-1_amd64_translations.tar.gz

Import queue:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/gnome-sudoku/+imports

The .po files have the old Project-Id-Version "gnome-games". Can that have something to do with it?

The buildlog says: "'gnome-sudoku.pot' is up to date.". Does the build need to include a recreation of the template to trigger LP imports of the .po files?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Gunnar,

cs.po has this in its header
"Project-Id-Version: gnome-sudoku master\n"

and its translation was updated in December 2017, but it wasn't imported either. Anyway, Project-Id-Version doesn't seem very important.

I mean one "solution" here might be to convert gnome-sudoku to meson. I'm a bit concerned that there may be other main apps that also have this bug though.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@Jeremy: I talked with Sebastien about it on IRC, and he noticed that there was an upstream translation sharing link, so I removed that. Seb said he would re-build, but probably forgot, so I'd suggest that someone (you?) upload a no-change rebuild as a first measure to see if the removal of that link makes a difference.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

The fact that the files are present in the tarball indicates an LP issue rather than a packaging one.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-sudoku - 1:3.27.3-1build1

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gnome-sudoku (1:3.27.3-1build1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild to try to fix translations issue (LP: #1734545)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:31:12 -0500

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

And only templates again. :(

Next step proposed by Sebastien is to ask e.g. William Grant for help.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

No .po files in tarball:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+upload/17626887/+files/gnome-sudoku_3.27.3-1build1_amd64_translations.tar.gz

I see now that there were no .po file in tarball last time either:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+upload/17593515/+files/gnome-sudoku_3.27.3-1_amd64_translations.tar.gz

So maybe I was wrong - may there is some moment in the build which fails or is not enabled, after all.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Many of the .po files are huge, since they include strings from gnome-games, and many of them have not been merged with the template for years. So one idea is to upload with .po files which are consistent with po/gnome-sudoku.pot. Attached please find a patch which could be used for the purpose.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I was wrong in comment #10 - checked apparently the wrong files.

All the stuff from the -proposed build is in the tarball.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+upload/17626717/+files/gnome-sudoku_3.27.3-1build1_amd64_translations.tar.gz

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-sudoku - 1:3.27.3-1build2

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gnome-sudoku (1:3.27.3-1build2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Yet another no change rebuild after unsetting translations sharing on
    launchpad, that should allow the translations to be imported
    (lp: #1734545)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:25:46 +0100

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Seems not to have helped. Nothing new in the translation import queue.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The import has been done now and it resolves the issue described
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/gnome-sudoku/+pots/gnome-sudoku/da/+details
The danish locale includes 100% translations and 0% launchpad changes over them which looks correct