app-install-data.mo is in -gnome language packs when it is useful in other DE's

[Jonathan Thomas]

The app-install-data package is a collection of desktop files for packages in the archives that are applications. (As opposed to libraries, data packages, etc) As such, application package managers for any desktop environment use app-install-data for filtering applications from other packages. KPackageKit is such an example, and currently application entries in it are not translated on KDE systems with full localization support installed because the catalog is in language-pack-$LANG-gnome.

The app-install-data catalog should be moved to a DE-neutral language pack so that all desktop environments can use them without dragging in the translations/l10n support of another.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Added classification override.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Actually, is this really fixed?

On my system it still seems to be delivered by the GNOME language packs:

$ dpkg -S app-install-data.mo
language-pack-gnome-ca-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo
language-pack-gnome-ca-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/ca/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo
language-pack-gnome-pl: /usr/share/locale-langpack/pl/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo
language-pack-gnome-en-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo
language-pack-gnome-en-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo
language-pack-gnome-de: /usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo
language-pack-gnome-en-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo
language-pack-gnome-nb-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/nb/LC_MESSAGES/app-install-data.mo

Martin, is the override working in langpack-o-matic?

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

My bad, it is not fixed here either.

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

Here is what happened:
-app-install-data was added to the maps/classify-overrides file:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/langpack-o-matic/main/revision/356#maps/classify-overrides
-but the classify-overrides file is expected to contain package names, not template names:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/langpack-o-matic/main/view/head:/lib/pkg_classify.py#L86
-the app-install-data template is in the app-install-data-ubuntu package, so this has to be added to the classify-overrides file:
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/app-install-data-ubuntu

I can't reopen this task for langpack-o-matic, should I open a new one?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, sorry about that, will fix. Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

More precisely, it operates on source package names, not binary ones. "app-install-data-ubuntu" is the correct source package name.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in langpack-o-matic r386.