Status strings during update do not show up translated

[Gabor Kelemen]

Binary package hint: aptdaemon

The status messages during package update do not show up translated. I don't know where are these actually coming from (perhaps even from apt or dpkg?), so filing it here.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Those strings are created by the aptdaemon. The problem is that aptdaemon doesn't switch the language (since it can theoretically used by several user with different languages.

In the trunk branch each transaction has got its own gettext translation according to its language. But I am not happy about how I access this translation instance. So expect the fix to land in Natty.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Sebastian, could you please review the linked branch? It should fix the missing i18n for dpkg and download progress.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

The downloading happens in the main process of aptdaemon. Changing the
locale for the main process could interact with error messages
generated by the daemon for actions of another user. In the trunk
branch there is a mechanism to create error messages in the language
of the transaction. So it would be ok to ship it as a distro patch -
knowing its limitations.

The unsetting of LANGUAGGE seems to be sane, but should happen in the
_fork method. This way it would also be re-used by the dpkg progresses.

Thanks!!!

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[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

The situation improved in Natty, but still not perfect. The string on the first screenshot is translated now, but the one on the second screenshot (this comes from libapt-pkg4.10) is still not. When running the update in Synaptic, this is translated too.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

We actually now unset the transalations from apt to have more useful crash logs. Seems to be a negative side effect. Makes sense to create the messages in aptdaemon instead of just using the raw message from apt.

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

Just tested it on Precise, and it works fine now, thanks!

[dino99 (9d9)]

eol reached https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases