usermode misses gettext as a build dependency

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Binary package hint: usermode

Ubuntu version: Jaunty 9.04
usermode version: 1.81-3.2

alkisg@alkis:/tmp/usermode-1.81$ dpkg -L usermode | grep '\.mo'
alkisg@alkis:/tmp/usermode-1.81$ ls -la po/el.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 alkisg alkisg 4302 2005-08-16 12:01 po/el.gmo
-rw-r--r-- 1 alkisg alkisg 14089 2005-08-16 12:01 po/el.po

If I run `apt-get source usermode` and `debuild -b`, the resulting .deb file properly contains all the translations.
So I guess they're stripped by mistake, by some script which thinks that usermode is in Main - but they shouldn't, because it is in Universe.

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

As it turns out, it may be a packaging problem, e.g. something missing from the Build-Depends line, because the translations are missing from the Debian package as well.

Please crosslink/forward this bug report to Debian...

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

The problem was a missing "gettext" dependency.

Adding gettext to the "Build-Depends" line in debian/control made all the .mo messages be included in the package:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34939487/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-lpia.usermode_1.81-3.2%2Bppa2_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

I've cross-reported this to Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553978

[Erik Kronberg (eakron)]

Added gettext dependency.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

Can you please attach a debiff instead of the full debian directory.

Thanks for your work,

Fabrice

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

> Can you please attach a debiff instead of the full debian directory.

I didn't send any files at all, but anyway I'm attaching a debdiff.
I also deleted the previous attachment by Eric.

Thanks all,
Alkis

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Thanks Alkis for the debdiff.

Anyway, even if the po files are generated thanks to installing gettext, they are not installed anywhere (the deb file has the same content before and after the patch).
Do you want to update the rules file to install them or do you prefer me to do it?

Thanks for your work,

Fabrice

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

Ooops! You're right, I didn't see that they aren't included, I used my self-made binary for installation.

But I'm not sure that the problem is in the rules file, because if I just call debuild without using pbuilder:
  $ debuild -b -tc
I get a binary that properly contains the translations!

So maybe
  $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)
in the rules file takes care of installing the translations, and the problem is in some other missing dependency?

/me looks... :)

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

Hi Fabrice,

Uhm no, the translations *were actually included* in my PPA build:
https://launchpad.net/~ts.sch.gr/+archive/ppa/+build/1316964

The karmic .deb is 78 Kb (http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/usermode)
and the .deb. in my PPA is 174 Kb.
So IMHO putting gettext in Build-Depends fixed the problem.

Maybe in your case the translations were stripped by some script? (as it happens with packages in Main)?

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hmmm, strange: I've built again the package, and now translations are there.
As I am building for lucid, it may be some bug during my previous build.

Uploaded then. Thanks for your contribution! :-)

Could you please forward to Debian, so that we may be able to sync the package back from Debian?

Thanks again,
Fabrice

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package usermode - 1.81-3.2ubuntu1

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usermode (1.81-3.2ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: added build dependency on gettext. Repackaging to add the
    missing translations (LP: #461365).
 -- Alkis Georgopoulos <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:41:20 +0200