The shotwell package needs to create a translation template on build

[David Planella]

Binary package hint: shotwell

The Shotwell source package needs to create a translation template during the build process, so that it can be uploaded to Launchpad Translations and Ubuntu translators can do their work.

For more information, see:
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Internationalisation/Packaging#TranslationTemplates
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/TranslationLifecycle

[Lucas Beeler (lucas-yorba)]

Shotwell uses a non-autotools build system that doesn't invoke intltool but instead calls the underlying GNU gettext tools directly. The Shotwell POT file is not generated during the build process but is instead statically packaged in the distribution tarball and deb. If you need access to the POT file for the Ubuntu Translations Project, it is available as the file shotwell.pot in the po/ directory of the package tree.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Lucas.

It seems that Launchpad has now picked up the POT template shipped in the tarball, so understanding that every tarball will ship an up-to-date POT file, I can close the bug now.

It will take a while after today's rollout for the template to be imported [1], but at some point tomorrow translations will be exposed in Launchpad at [2].

[1] https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/shotwell/+imports?field.filter_status=all&field.filter_extension=pot
[2] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/shotwell