[Bug 1762889] Re: dh_translations doesn't strip .desktop files when more than 1 pot target with meson

[Jeremy Bicha]

It sounds like you're saying that if any translator wants translated
help for GNOME apps, they need to do that in GNOME directly. Therefore,
why bother building the help pot files since we're just ignoring them
anyway right now?

We don't patch the help for GNOME apps (excluding ubuntu-docs), so the
factor of Ubuntu-specific strings isn't relevant here.

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Title:
  dh_translations doesn't strip .desktop files when more than 1 pot
  target with meson

Status in pkgbinarymangler package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The gnome.help() meson function creates a help-$project-pot target.
  This confuses dh_translations which complains:

  dh_translations: more than one meson translation domain found (help-
  gnome-calculator,gnome-calculator), don't know which one to use

  I think the only consequence of this is that the .desktop doesn't have
  its translations stripped and replaced with X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=

  This means that Ubuntu translators are unable to update those
  translations.

  Affected Apps
  =============
  Therefore, this issue affects GNOME apps in main that use meson and also include help files.

  gnome-control-center is also affected because it happens to have an
  extra gettext domain (but does not ship help).

  libgweather gets the warning because it has a second gettext domain
  but it doesn't ship any .desktop files so I think the warning is
  harmless.

  Suggestion
  ==========
  Maybe dh_translations could just exclude targets that start with "help-". That would fix most of these cases.

  Other Info
  ==========
  This bug is split off LP: #1751820

  pkgbinarymanagler 136 in bionic

  References
  ==========
  http://mesonbuild.com/Gnome-module.html#gnomeyelp
  http://mesonbuild.com/Localisation.html

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