In the upstream gnome-software issue I learned that Fedora ships
metainfo{its,loc} via their libappstream-glib-devel package. So could
Debian/Ubuntu move those files from appstream to libappstream-glib-dev?
Well, don't think so — see the attached file for the reason.
It makes little sense to pass release descriptions, which upstream
decided to not translate, to the downstream translators. The problem has
now been reduced via the MR I mentioned (which was merged), but the
descriptions for the latest few releases are still there.
So as regards the POT file for snap-store-desktop I currently see no
other feasible solution than simply making sure that appstream's
metainfo{its,loc} files are not available when generating it. By e.g.
renaming them temporarily or something.
** Attachment added: "appstream-reverse-build-depends.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1927149/+attachment/5515406/+files/appstream-reverse-build-depends.txt
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1927149
Title:
Irrelevant translatable strings
Status in AppStream:
Unknown
Status in GNOME Software:
Unknown
Status in snap-store-desktop:
New
Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
When building gnome-software on Ubuntu, dh_translations generates a
translation template (.pot file) to be imported to Rosetta. That
template includes 700+ log messages from
data/appdata/org.gnome.Software.appdata.xml.in. The messages are not
shown to users, and it makes no sense to have those strings
translated. It's worth mentioning that the strings are excluded in
upstream's translation template.
The issue was first reported at the ubuntu-translators mailing list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2021-May/007757.html
I stripped the redundant strings from the template and uploaded it to
hirsute manually as a temporary measure.
The reason why this happens seems to be that the appstream package is
included in Build-Depends. appstream installs the file
/usr/share/gettext/its/metainfo.its with rules which make all the log
entries be extracted. But the gettext package installs
/usr/share/gettext-0.21/its/metainfo.its with more sensible rules
which do not make the log entries be extracted. If the former is not
present, xgettext falls back to the latter.
So a solution to this issue is to drop appstream from Build-Depends.
gnome-software seems to build fine without that package (tested in
PPA).
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