compiled messages not shipped in packaging resulting in missing translations

[Przemyslaw Hausman]

I changed the language in GUI to French but interface stays mostly English. Just a few strings are displayed in French, e.g.:

- "Password" ("Mot de passe") on the login screen,
- units "GB", "TB" as "Gio" and "Tio" in Compute Overview,
- "New password" ("Noveau mot de passe") in User Settings.

All other strings are in English.

See screenshots attached.

This is the Stein on Ubuntu Bionic deployment.

[Przemyslaw Hausman (phausman)]

The problem does NOT occur on Queens on Ubuntu Bionic. All strings are properly translated. I have just deployed Queens and verified this. See attached 05-all-ok-queens.png.

Looks like the regression was introduced somewhere between Queens and Stein.

[Przemyslaw Hausman (phausman)]

I can now confirm that I can see the same issue on Rocky deployment.

[James Page (james-page)]

it looks like the translation compilation never happens - if you drop into /usr/share/openstack-dashboard and run:

  sudo python3 manage.py compilemessages

and then restart apache the translations appear to be OK

[Przemyslaw Hausman (phausman)]

Workaround that worked for me:

sudo apt install -y gettext
cd /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard
sudo python3 /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/manage.py compilemessages
sudo systemctl restart apache2

I'm unsubscribing field-high as we have a workaround now.

[James Page (james-page)]

Packages have PO files but not MO files - the package build does the compilation but the install step completely misses them.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package horizon - 3:18.0.1~git2020021409.bb959361b-0ubuntu3

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horizon (3:18.0.1~git2020021409.bb959361b-0ubuntu3) focal; urgency=medium

  * d/rules: Force regeneration of SOURCES.txt to ensure that generated
    django{js}.mo files are included in binary packages, resolving issues
    with translations (LP: #1862343).

 -- James Page <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:54:13 +0000

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

This bug was fixed in the package horizon - 3:18.0.1~git2020021409.bb959361b-0ubuntu3~cloud0
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 horizon (3:18.0.1~git2020021409.bb959361b-0ubuntu3~cloud0) bionic-ussuri; urgency=medium
 .
   * New update for the Ubuntu Cloud Archive.
 .
 horizon (3:18.0.1~git2020021409.bb959361b-0ubuntu3) focal; urgency=medium
 .
   * d/rules: Force regeneration of SOURCES.txt to ensure that generated
     django{js}.mo files are included in binary packages, resolving issues
     with translations (LP: #1862343).

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The Eoan Ermine has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release