Help .pot file is not being generated

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

Hi, while processing dapper translations into Rosetta I detected that this package has the help using .po files.

It's being common that GNOME packages use .pot/.po files to translate documentation so we should handle it the same way we handle normal .pot files.

Take a look at help/ for the Makefile that controls it.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

I forgot to note that this is a bug because the .pot file is not generated and thus, we cannot import it into Rosetta.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Martin, do you think we should hack CDBS to "cd help; make pot" for packages using gnome-doc-utils or just patch them? There is 20 main packages using it

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I would be fine with adding that to gnome.mk. If we can factor out changes to a central location, we should do that by all means. However, the 20 packages still need to be rebuilt.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

What will happen with those translations?

Will they end as part of language packs?

They are to generate documentation translations

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

> Will they end as part of language packs?

Since language packs are not used for translating help (help files don't use gettext at runtime; at most at build time, but I even doubt that), it doesn't make sense.

So I think the doc team should be able to pull them manually, but they shouldn't end up in the rosetta language pack tarball. Carlos, is that possible?

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Sorry, when I said language packs I would mean a kind of language pack for documentation.

Do we have such thing?

Of course I can disable those .po files so we don't get them on usual language packs.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

@carlos: disabling them for the normal langpack export would be helpful.

I see no problems with generating pot files as part of cdbs' langpack.mk.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 cdbs (0.4.32ubuntu20) dapper; urgency=low
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   * langpack.mk.in: Try to build POT file in help/. Closes: LP#35403

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the issue:

 gucharmap (1:1.6.0-0ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low
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   * Rebuild so the cdbs magic will build a .pot for the help directory
     (Ubuntu: #35403)