Fcitx translation to Catalan not imported

Thank you for your bug report. What Ubuntu serie are you working on? Do you have example of strings that you would expect translated which are not?

Fcitx is now in universe, so the upstream translations - including Catalan - are installed via the fcitx-data package in /usr/share/locale in bionic and available to the users that way, but since it's in universe, the upstream translations won't be imported to LP any longer.

One question is if we should keep fcitx in the LP translation interface. The fact that the package has been translated into a few languages in LP but not upstream speaks for keeping it. But in that case I suppose we should re-enable translation stripping.

@Sebastien: Any thoughts?

@Gunnar, unsure about that, we can include universe packages in langpack by setting "X-Ubuntu-Use-Langpack: yes" in debian/control (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Universe_Translations_in_LP) which is also an option

Thanks @Sebastien and @Gunnar. As for @Sebastien's question, the place where I don't see any of my Transifex translations is:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/fcitx/+pots/fcitx/ca/+translate?show=untranslated

Same thing for other packages like "systemd", which I translated with a pull request in Github, but shows as completely untranslated in Launchpad.

On 2018-02-21 17:20, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> we can include universe packages in langpack by setting
> "X-Ubuntu-Use-Langpack: yes" in debian/control
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Universe_Translations_in_LP)
> which is also an option

Right, that is what I had in mind. That way we would avoid to drop translations which are in LP only. Is that what you think we should do?

@Walter: systemd ought to be ok now (bug #1707898).

yes, that seems a reasonable option

Assuming that builds outside of Ubuntu are not hurt by that line, I attached a Debian patch with that one liner.

... and now a merge request too ...

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fcitx/merge_requests/1

Change now in <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fcitx>. Assigning myself to the Ubuntu Translations task to follow up that it works as expected once fcitx has been updated in Ubuntu.

The translations including the template were stripped when fcitx 1:4.2.9.6-1 was uploaded.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+upload/17654442/+files/fcitx_4.2.9.6-1_amd64_translations.tar.gz

However, LP refused to import anything.

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/fcitx/+imports

So while the package side of this has been addressed, the LP import issue (which affects multiple packages) remains to be solved.

So, Walter, since fcitx-data no longer installs any translations, the the Catalan translations were just dropped for the users. :( Hopefully this is just a temporary state which will soon be fixed on the Launchpad side.

> However, LP refused to import anything.

The import seems to have been successful Gunnar, can you check if that was just import delay or if you still see an issue?

I've checked and everything seems OK, at least for Catalan. Thanks @seb128 and @gunnarhj.

Great! Seems to just have been a delay. (Normally the translations show up more or less instantly once a package is built.)