[Bug 1927149] Re: Irrelevant translatable strings

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This bug was fixed in the package pkgbinarymangler - 153

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pkgbinarymangler (153) mantic; urgency=medium

  * Generate POT files with GNOME’s version of metainfo.its
    (LP: #1927149)

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 24 May 2023 16:42:26
+0200

** Changed in: pkgbinarymangler (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  Irrelevant translatable strings

Status in AppStream:
  Unknown
Status in GNOME Software:
  Fix Released
Status in snap-store-desktop:
  New
Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in pkgbinarymangler package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When building gnome-software on Ubuntu, dh_translations generates a
  translation template (.pot file) to be imported to Rosetta. That
  template includes 700+ log messages from
  data/appdata/org.gnome.Software.appdata.xml.in. The messages are not
  shown to users, and it makes no sense to have those strings
  translated. It's worth mentioning that the strings are excluded in
  upstream's translation template.

  The issue was first reported at the ubuntu-translators mailing list:
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2021-May/007757.html

  I stripped the redundant strings from the template and uploaded it to
  hirsute manually as a temporary measure.

  The reason why this happens seems to be that the appstream package is
  included in Build-Depends. appstream installs the file
  /usr/share/gettext/its/metainfo.its with rules which make all the log
  entries be extracted. But the gettext package installs
  /usr/share/gettext-0.21/its/metainfo.its with more sensible rules
  which do not make the log entries be extracted. If the former is not
  present, xgettext falls back to the latter.

  So a solution to this issue is to drop appstream from Build-Depends.
  gnome-software seems to build fine without that package (tested in
  PPA).

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