[Bug 1751820] Re: Teach dh_translations how to deal with meson

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Smart way to find the builddir, Laney. :)

I tested with g-c-c and stumbled upon an issue: The introspect command
seems to result in a newline separated list of domains, and in the case
of g-c-c $domain contains the string:

'gnome-control-center-2.0
gnome-control-center-2.0-timezones'

The log file includes:

ninja: error: unknown target 'gnome-control-center-2.0
gnome-control-center-2.0-timezones-pot'

No POT built, and you can imagine what the .desktop and .policy files
look like.

In the patched dh_translations I replaced:

        chomp $domain;

with

        ($domain) = split ' ', $domain;

and could then build g-c-c successfully.

Questions:

1. How do we know that we want the first domain in the list?

2. How do we generally handle packages with multiple gettext domains?

3. Is there a need to create gnome-control-center-2.0-timezones.pot? (If
there is, it's another bug, I suppose.)


A side note - I noticed that this:

	# filter out translated fields
	next if (/^(Name|GenericName|Comment|X-GNOME-FullName)\[/);

means that the upstream translations of "Icon" and "Keywords" are kept.
Shouldn't those be removed as well, or are they kept intentionally?

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Title:
  Teach dh_translations how to deal with meson

Status in pkgbinarymangler package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  dh_translations is currently not capable to find the gettext domain
  and generate the translation template on packages which use the meson
  build system. It would be convenient if it was.

  I started to think about code changes, but got stuck:

  I suppose that we'd better use ninja instead of intltool-update for
  such packages, and if so, we need to pass the build directory to the
  ninja() call. How would we do that?

  Or would we use intltool-update also for such packages?

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