German strings in deja-dup.mo for en_GB

[Iain Lane]

[ 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

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

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.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

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.

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[Iain Lane (laney)]

> 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!

[Iain Lane (laney)]

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.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

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

Hopefully the ageing period can be waived on that.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

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