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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Okay, I'll switch to an array. I'm used to hashes, and personally find
it just as readable, but maybe not.. And efficiency is indeed not an
issue for this non-runtime code.

On 2018-04-13 10:42, Iain Lane wrote:
> OK, a slight review, it's confusing that --domain only works for
> meson; is there any reason not to make that option cover other build
> systems too?

My thought was that the purpose of adding it was to offer a way to
compensate for the ambiguity wrt some Meson packages. So the way it's
currently done, you can only set a domain from debian/rules which the
introspect command finds. Eliminates the risk that a package maintainer
screws it up. ;)

If we'd switch to a true override, where you can set any domain from
debian/rules, it would make sense to include other build systems. That
might be useful for cases where a gettext domain exists, but the
dh_translations code fails to find it for some reason.

Should I change it to a true override, so to say?

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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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