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Hi Sven,

Em seg, 26 de ago de 2019 às 20:33, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> escreveu:
> On 2019-08-26 07:55 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> > Package: libcwidget4
> > Version: 0.5.18-3
> >
> > The libcwidget4 package ships its translations under
> > /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/libcwidget3.mo.  This is bad, because
> > these files conflict with the ones from libcwidget3v5, they should be
> > named /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/libcwidget4.mo instead.
> >
> > See bug #655689[1] for the initial discussion about including the soname in
> > the translation file names, and why these are currently called
> > libcwidget3.mo rather than just libcwidget.mo.
>
> Attached is a patch against the master branch in cwidget-upstream which
> takes care of that, I have not looked what it would take to apply it to
> the Debian packaging.

Thanks for the fix and the explanations.

> Having to change three files for an SONAME bump is not great.  Another
> option would be to set the domain back to 'cwidget' and ship the
> translations in their own package, say libcwidget-l10n.  Then both
> libcwidget4 and a later libcwidget5 package could declare a relationship
> to libcwidget-l10n, probably Recommends.

There's been only this one SONAME change in the last decade or so, so
I think that we're fine with the current method :)

So I will upload this during the afternoon, thanks for the help.

-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

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