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

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This bug was fixed in the package pkgbinarymangler - 139

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pkgbinarymangler (139) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * dh_translations:
    - Prevent domain confusion for Meson packages when a help-* domain
      is present (LP: #1762889).
    - Don't build help-*.pot. Those templates are used to build static
      localized XML pages, and we don't want to create LP templates and
      deal with exported LP translations for such pages anyway.
    - Allow the domain to be passed to dh_translations via an option in
      debian/rules.
    - Strip also Icon and Keywords translations in .desktop files.

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>  Mon, 21 May 2018 12:51:24
+0100

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

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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:
  Fix Released

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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