Wrong POT template creation in some KDE packages

Problem most likely lies with the translation infastructure itself, and not with the amarok source package. I have opened tasks against the relevant projects and will close the Ubuntu amarok source package task.

Jonathan,

Thanks for the heads up. Launchpad Translations, in general, only imports the PO files and POT templates from the packages, so it shouldn't be modifying or looking at .ui files. I think then, that the rosetta task might be invalid, but I'll leave the Launchpad developers decide on that.

While I think this could potentially cause untranslated strings, I believe it should not lead to unpredictable results or a crash.

The latest template update was on 2010-02-27 08:53:52.673668+00:00, so we should look at the upload that created that template.

* Was there any Amarok upload or security upload around that time?

There was an upload with a patch to port Amarok's tray icon to the new API, but I don't think it messed with any strings.

Every package upload of an translatable Ubuntu or Kubuntu package results in the translation template being generated and imported into Launchpad.

Jonathan, could you point us to the upload, so that we can have a look at the template imported into LP? Thanks!

Here's the package upload: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/2:2.2.2.90-0ubuntu2

Ok, here is the uploaded tarball with the translations and the template: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/39821794/amarok_2.2.2.90-0ubuntu2_i386_translations.tar.gz

It seems that the template created by the package (in source/po/amarok.pot in the tarball) contains the invalid messages. I've had a quick look at the package, but I'm not very familiar with Kubuntu packaging. How is the template created?

Maybe the list of other KDE packages with similar symptoms will be helpful in triaging.

1) https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/plasma-widget-networkmanagement/+pots/libknetworkmanager/uk/+translate?show=untranslated

2) https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/kdeplasma-addons/+pots/plasma-applet-bubblemon/uk/+translate?show=untranslated

3) Konversation template (wrong extraction of _(blah-blah) items)

That's definitely helpful, thanks yurchor.

This seems to be a more generalized problem, which might point to an issue in the POT template generation scripts.

* plasma-widget-networkmanagement/libknetworkmanager
** Last POT template update (import date): 2010-01-18 02:36:27.995248+00:00
** Template (translations upload): https://launchpadlibrarian.net/38013350/plasma-widget-networkmanagement_0.9%7Esvn1075616-0ubuntu1_sparc_translations.tar.gz

* kdeplasma-addons/plasma-applet-bubblemon
** Last POT template update (import date): 2010-02-22 15:27:41.051013+00:00
** Template (translations upload): https://launchpadlibrarian.net/39527265/kdeplasma-addons_4.4.0-0ubuntu2_i386_translations.tar.gz

* In Konversation I cannot see this problem, are you perhaps referring to another issue?

Do these particular packages have anything in common? Or is it something affecting all Kubuntu packages? Have extract-message.sh or Message.sh changed recently?

If it's a general issue, perhaps we should open another task for whatever is responsible for creating the POT templates?

More info at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Upstream/KDE/KubuntuTranslationsLifecycle

[1] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/konversation/+pots/konversation/uk/+translate?start=0&batch=10&show=untranslated&field.alternative_language=&field.alternative_language-empty-marker=1&old_show=all

I filed another bug report against Konversation ( Bug #530103 ). You are right, these bugs can be unrelated.

This bug was fixed in the package pkg-kde-tools - 0.6.4ubuntu4

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pkg-kde-tools (0.6.4ubuntu4) lucid; urgency=low

  * Add syncing of l10n scritps with KDE SVN to debian/rules (syncl10n)
    + this can be invoked via make -f debian/rules syncl10n
    + sync scripts, to fix POT creation (LP: #529483)
 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:21:23 +0100

Amarok needs binary rebuild against new pkg-kde-tools

El dl 01 de 03 de 2010 a les 21:27 +0000, en/na Harald Sitter va
escriure:
> Amarok needs binary rebuild against new pkg-kde-tools

Here's the list of packages which might need a rebuild. The two files
show the potentially affected source packages in all series against the
staging database and then for Lucid only against the production
database. I think the Lucid list should be a good start, bearing in mind
that there are also false positives which should be ignored (gcc, gdb,
binutils, gnome-doc-utils, OO.org, etc.)

Perhaps you'd like to add a task for every affected Kubuntu package
here, whichever way it's easy for you to track.

This bug was fixed in the package konversation - 1.2.3-1ubuntu2

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konversation (1.2.3-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Rebuild to fix broken pot file (LP: #529483)
 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:54:20 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package kde-style-qtcurve - 1.0.2-1ubuntu2

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kde-style-qtcurve (1.0.2-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Rebuild to fix broken pot file (LP: #529483)
 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:22:29 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package kipi-plugins - 1.0.0-1ubuntu2

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kipi-plugins (1.0.0-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Rebuild to fix broken pot file (LP: #529483)
 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:34:25 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package plasma-widget-networkmanagement - 0.9~svn1075616-0ubuntu2

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plasma-widget-networkmanagement (0.9~svn1075616-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Rebuild to fix broken pot file (LP: #529483)
 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:38:13 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package amarok - 2:2.2.2.90-0ubuntu3

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amarok (2:2.2.2.90-0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * Rebuild to fix broken pot file (LP: #529483)
 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:56:33 +0100

All other core KDE packages should have been rebuilt in course of the 4.4.1 upload.
I am not sure if openoffice needs a new upload, need to look into that.

From looking at the openoffice.org buildlog it does not seem to generate templates using the affected tools, so that is probably a false-positive, otherwise final upload will sort the issue anyway.

I think that all packages should now have fixed templates uploaded/in queue.

A quick inspection at the templates shows that they are ok now, thus marking it as Fix Released for ubuntu-translations as well.

If any strings became untranslated because of this, we might just have to wait for the next Lucid language pack to be generated to see the fix.