gufw installs translation files in /usr/share/locale-langpack

I have a lot of doubts about this directory. Could anybody help us with this? thanks! ;)

Applications should generally install their translations on /usr/share/locale, or to be more correct, to a location specified by the --prefix option at build time (i.e. $prefix/locale).

The /usr/share/locale-langpack directory is an Ubuntu-specific feature to allow translations be shipped in language packs.

However, this only applies to packages in the main repository, and not to packages in universe, which should ship their translations in /usr/share/locale (well, $prefix/locale).

In any case, the /usr/share/locale-langpack should never be hardcoded in an upstream application.

The merge proposal submitted a while ago in this branch should fix this issue:

https://code.launchpad.net/~dpm/gui-ufw/improve-i18n/+merge/33303

It's just a matter of modifying the setup.py file to use python-distutils-extra and using standard practices instead of re-writing code to manage translations there.

I'll be more than happy to help further on this.

This bug was fixed in the package gui-ufw - 11.10.0-0ubuntu1

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gui-ufw (11.10.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstram release (LP: #776518, #729814).
  * debian/rules: use python2 sequence.
  * debian/control: add python (>= 2.6.6-3~) to Build-Depends
    field.
  * debian/control: remove Build-Depends-Indep field.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2.
 -- Devid Antonio Filoni <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:19:42 +0200