Not sure if you saw but here is a similar patch:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29639
We've been shipping this in Ubuntu for years.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 at 04:36 Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nus...@suse.de> wrote:
> Upstream polkit action files do not necessarily contain translations for
> all languages a distribution supports. And even if all translations are
> contained in the head branch, distributions sometimes need to ship older
> versions of packages. In order to allow retrofitting translations and
> shipping language packs for polkit actions without having to patch and
> rebuild packages gettext could be used as fallback. That way only
> additional .mo files have to be installed.
> So this patch makes polkit call into gettext with the domain
> 'polkit-action-distro-translations' if an xml doesn't contain
> translations for the requested language.
> ---
> src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c
> b/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c
> index 3894fe9..9252788 100644
> --- a/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c
> +++ b/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
> #include <pwd.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <expat.h>
> +#include <locale.h>
>
> #include <polkit/polkit.h>
> #include <polkit/polkitprivate.h>
> @@ -1132,8 +1133,20 @@ _localize (GHashTable *translations,
> if (result != NULL)
> goto out;
>
> - /* fall back to untranslated */
> - result = untranslated;
> + /* try distro provided language bundle via gettext */
> +
> + /* Set LANG and locale so g_dgettext() + friends work below */
> + if (setlocale (LC_ALL, lang) == NULL)
> + {
> + g_printerr ("Invalid locale '%s'\n", lang);
> + }
> + g_setenv ("LANG", lang, TRUE);
> +
> + result = g_dgettext ("polkit-action-distro-translations", untranslated);
> +
> + /* Back to C! */
> + setlocale (LC_ALL, "C");
> + g_setenv ("LANG", "C", TRUE);
>
> out:
> return result;
> --
> 2.12.2
>
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