[Bug 1767549] Re: org.gnome.Characters.desktop untranslated

[Brian Murray]

** Also affects: pkgbinarymangler (Ubuntu Cosmic)
   Importance: Medium
       Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-characters (Ubuntu Cosmic)
   Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
       Status: In Progress

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Title:
  org.gnome.Characters.desktop untranslated

Status in gnome-characters package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in pkgbinarymangler package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gnome-characters source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in pkgbinarymangler source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in gnome-characters source package in Cosmic:
  In Progress
Status in pkgbinarymangler source package in Cosmic:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  The version of dh_translations, which was present when gnome-
  characters was last uploaded, resulted in a .desktop file with the
  wrong gettext domain, so the name of the application in e.g. the
  Activities overview is always shown in English.

  Meson support has been added to dh_translations since, so a no-change
  rebuild is sufficient to fix the issue.

  [Test Case]

  On a system with some other language but English:

  * Install the gnome-characters .deb package

  -> find that its name is "Characters".

  * Install the rebuilt version of gnome-characters

  * Relogin

  -> find that its name is the translation of "Characters"

  [Regression Potential]

  None.

  [Original description]

  $ tail -n1 /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Characters.desktop
  X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=$PACKAGE_NAME

  dh_translations is confused by files in the source package belonging
  to the old build system. configure.ac contains this line:

  GETTEXT_PACKAGE=$PACKAGE_NAME

  and dh_translations happily uses it to do its things.

  The gnome-characters source package should apparently be cleaned up,
  but I think that dh_translations should also be changed to not accept
  a domain starting with '$'.

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