gspell does not include translations

[Jeremy Bícha]

Note
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The update adds a new binary package since Debian is now using an arch-independent -common package for translations.

Fixed in zesty by syncing the fix from Debian.

Impact
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The gspell package does not include any translations. This means that Text Editor spell checking dialog is not translated which is a regression from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (in 16.10, the spell checker library was split out of the gedit source).

Test Case
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Check the build log to ensure that translations are included.
Because gspell is in main, its translations won't be available until a language pack is created.
gspell is so far only used in gedit.

sudo apt install language-pack-fr language-pack-gnome-fr

1. Open the Settings app to the Region panel. Choose French (France) as default language.
2. Log out and log back in.
3. Open 'Éditeur de texte'
4. Type a misspelled word in the text editor
5. In the menu, click 'Outils' , then select 'Verification orthographique'

The spell check dialog should be in French not English.

Regression Potential
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None

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: libgspell-1-1 1.0.3-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-17.19-generic 4.8.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 9 07:25:14 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-11 (58 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160811)
SourcePackage: gspell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This package was accepted into main since the last time I uploaded it but it's not in the ubuntu-desktop packageset so I need sponsorship.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gspell into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gspell/1.0.3-1ubuntu4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

@Jeremy -- the new common package dropped the upload into New. Examining this package it seems to be completely empty. I assume something is awry here.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Oh they are being stripped and turned into a translations upload.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

@Andy, yes, could you approve the new common package?

This is an odd SRU because the bug won't be fully fixed until the next translations export, but since there are no gspell translations now in yakkety, the SRU is not a regression.

Sometimes, for SRUs, more complicated stuff is done to try to workaround the language pack issue but I'm not sure of the procedure for that, and I don't think it's a high enough priority in this case for that complication.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I installed libgspell-1-1 1.0.3-1ubuntu4 from yakkety-proposed on Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 and it pulled in libgspell-1-common.

I verified that gedit's spell checker still looks ok in English. The translations won't work until the next langpack update is done.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gspell - 1.0.3-1ubuntu4

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gspell (1.0.3-1ubuntu4) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Add libgspell-1-common package to install translations, thanks
    Laurent Bigonville (LP: #1631754)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sun, 09 Oct 2016 11:28:58 -0400

[Robie Basak (racb)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gspell has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.