debian/rules clean target changes translations

[Nathaniel McCallum]

When trying to build source packages (via debuild -S), most notably ssh and
openoffice, unintended translation changes happen.

Steps to reproduce:
1. install a clean warty system
2. install development utils: devscripts, fakeroot, others (I just installed
gnome-devel)
3. apt-get source ssh
4. cd to source dir
5. dch -i (create a test/fake changelog entry)
6. debuild -S
7. cd ..
8. debdiff ${oldver}.dsc ${newver}.dsc

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Does it happen when you use dpkg-buildpackage -S?

Does it happen when you run debian/rules clean?

[Nathaniel McCallum (nmccallum)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does it happen when you use dpkg-buildpackage -S?

Yes.

> Does it happen when you run debian/rules clean?
Yes. It seems to be coming from this portion of the rules file:

ifeq ($(PO2DEBCONF),yes)
        # Hack for woody compatibility. This makes sure that the
        # debian/templates file shipped in the source package doesn't
        # specify encodings, which woody's debconf can't handle. If building
        # on a system with po-debconf installed (conveniently debhelper (>=
        # 4.1.16) depends on it), the binary-arch target will generate a
        # better version for sarge.
        echo 1 > debian/po/output
        po2debconf debian/openssh-client.templates.master >
debian/openssh-client.templates
        po2debconf debian/openssh-server.templates.master >
debian/openssh-server.templates
        rm -f debian/po/output
endif

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I really don't think the clean target should be doing something like this; at
any rate, we don't need to support building ubuntu packages on woody.

On the other hand, I think the changes are harmless.

[Nathaniel McCallum (nmccallum)]

OK, no big deal. closing.

[Nathaniel McCallum (nmccallum)]

Colin did find a bug with po-debconf, reopening.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

po-debconf 0.8.13 sync complete.

[Nathaniel McCallum (nmccallum)]

The problem is still occuring with exim4 and the newest po-debconf.

[Nathaniel McCallum (nmccallum)]

mgetty also...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The exim4 change is correct: the last Ubuntu upload was built with the older
version of po-debconf. A new upload will restore things to the correct state of
affairs. You might want to debdiff against 4.34-5 rather than 4.34-5ubuntu1 for
sanity-checking in that regard.

I can't reproduce any problem with mgetty, so I'll need to see the diff.

[Nathaniel McCallum (nmccallum)]

Created an attachment (id=263)
debdiff of mgetty

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The mgetty changes are basically just po-debconf rejustifying text and making a
few other similar cosmetic changes; they're nothing to worry about. Uploading
this is safe.