@Jeremy: That would be quite some work. And please note that avoiding the metainfo.its file shipped with some appstream{,-glib} binary should be considered a temporary fix, i.e. the file will sooner or later replace the older equivalent in the gettext package.
After I had filed the appstream issue, they made a change so you can opt out from extracting <release/> strings: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/51ab4f32 So in the GNOME Software issue I proposed that we should opt out all over, but the maintainer let me know that the strings will be shown in Software as from GNOME 41, so he didn't let me 'hide' the latest strings. At the same time: Here is the attitude from the l10n.gnome.org folks: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/damned- lies/-/issues/149#note_532339 And here we sit downstream and see that GNOME disagrees with GNOME. :( ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/damned-lies/-/issues #149 https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/damned-lies/-/issues/149 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1927149 Title: Irrelevant translatable strings To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/appstream/+bug/1927149/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs