[Bug 483423] [NEW] Babel Fish service uses wrong URL, search strings

[Owen Healy]

Public bug reported:

Source package: libtranslate
in Karmic
apt-cache policy libtranslate0 gives
libtranslate0:
  Installed: 0.99-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 0.99-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 0.99-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

To reproduce:
$ sudo apt-get install libtranslate-bin
$ echo 'Sitting and thinking' | translate-bin -s babelfish
[                                                                             ]
(translate-bin:22932): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using Babel Fish: unable to parse server data

(translate-bin:22932): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate
chunk using Babel Fish: unable to parse server data

(translate-bin:22932): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using Babel Fish: unable to parse server data
translate-bin: unable to translate: no service could translate chunk

data/services.xml.in needs to be changed to reflect the new URLs used by Babel Fish:
--- libtranslate-0.99.orig/data/services.xml.in
+++ libtranslate-0.99/data/services.xml.in
@@ -48,12 +48,11 @@
       <language tag="pt" to="en,fr"/>
       <language tag="ru" to="en"/>
       <language tag="es" to="en,fr"/>
-      <text-translation url="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?urltext=${text:escape}&lp=${from}_${to}&enc=utf8">
-	<pre-marker text="<form action="http://www.altavista.com/web/results"/>
-	<pre-marker text="px;>"/>
+      <text-translation url="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt?ei=UTF-8&doit=done&fr=bf-home&intl=1&tt=urltext&trtext=${text:escape}&lp=${from}_${to}&btnTrTxt=Translate">
+	<pre-marker text="<div id="result"><div style="padding:0.6em;">"/>
 	<post-marker text="</div>"/>
       </text-translation>
-      <web-page-translation url="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_load?url=${url:escape}&lp=${from}_${to}&enc=utf8"/>
+      <web-page-translation url="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=${url:escape}&lp=${from}_${to}&btnTrUrl=Translate"/>
     </group>
   </service>

After applying this patch I get the result:
$ echo 'Sitting and thinking' | translate-bin -s babelfish
Se reposer et penser

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 16 00:48:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libtranslate0 0.99-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: libtranslate
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2449): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (<unknown>:4036): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

** Affects: libtranslate (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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