I still think this is a dumb fix, especially since you loose the feature to actually mark strings from being untranslatable by dropping the appstream dependency. A proper workaround would be to leave that in, possibly backport the ITS patch for appstream to update the file, and then mark the release entries you don't want to have translated with `translate="no"` in the XML.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. 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 Released 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). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/appstream/+bug/1927149/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
