** Description changed: + [ Impact ] + + Evince shows its user interface in English even when the system language + is German. This started in Ubuntu 26.04. + + Evince uses language packs (X-Ubuntu-Use-Langpack: yes): its .mo files + are stripped from the binary packages, and translations reach users + through Launchpad Translations and the language-pack-gnome-* packages. + That requires a translation template (evince.pot), which dh_translations + generates during the build by running the meson evince-pot target. This + step fails because po/POTFILES.in lists two files that no longer exist + in the source tree: + + ``` + /usr/bin/xgettext: error while opening "properties/ev-properties-view.c" for reading: No such file or directory + FAILED: [code=1] meson-internal__evince-pot + ``` + + The failure doesn't stop the build, but no template is generated, so + Evince translations don't reach the language packs. + + The fix combines two upstream commits that update po/POTFILES.in: one + fixes the paths of the moved and removed files, the other adds + translatable files that were missing from the list. + + [ Test Plan ] + + The translations are shipped as .mo files in evince-common, so this can + be tested in an LXD container. + + 1. Launch a container and get a root shell in it: + + ``` + lxc launch ubuntu-daily:stonking evince-l10n + lxc shell evince-l10n + ``` + + 2. In that shell, generate a German locale and install evince: + + ``` + locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8 + apt update + apt install -y evince + apt policy evince-common + ``` + + The installed version should be 49~alpha-2ubuntu3. + + 3. Check for the German translation: + + ``` + ls -l /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/evince.mo + LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 gettext -d evince Print + ``` + + Bug: the .mo file doesn't exist and gettext prints "Print". + + 4. Enable -proposed and install the fixed packages: + + ``` + add-apt-repository -y --pocket proposed + apt install -y -t stonking-proposed evince evince-common libevview-4.0-5 libevdocument-4.0-6 + apt policy evince-common + ``` + + evince-common should be installed from stonking-proposed with version + 49~alpha-2ubuntu3.1. + + 5. Repeat step 3. Expected: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/evince.mo + exists and gettext prints "Drucken". + + 6. Check the amd64 build log of 49~alpha-2ubuntu3.1 on Launchpad: the + evince-pot step run by dh_translations must not contain the "xgettext: + error while opening" error. + + [ Where problems could occur ] + + The patch only touches po/POTFILES.in, which is used to generate the + translation template at build time. No code is changed. If the list were + wrong, template generation would fail again, as it does now, or some + strings would be missing from the template and stay untranslated. + + [ Other Info ] + + The upload also drops X-Ubuntu-Use-Langpack: yes from debian/control. It + was added in 49~alpha-2ubuntu2, when evince was still meant to get its + translations from language packs. Since then evince was moved to + universe, is no longer the default document viewer, and was removed from + the language packs, but pkgbinarymangler still strips the .mo files from + the binary packages because of this header. So the translations are + neither in the packages nor in the language packs. Without the header, + the .mo files built from po/*.po stay in evince-common. + + Upstream commits: + https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/commit/ad1aaf50875df436dc1ab00c5f195680de56b381 + https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/commit/ed4cb87730a934e59bb2f75ec43b685f37387759 + + [ Original Description ] + Evince lacks the German translation since Ubuntu 26.04. Evince has been demoted to universe in resolute and the build log shows this failure: [0/1] Running external command evince-pot /usr/bin/xgettext: error while opening "properties/ev-properties-view.c" for reading: No such file or directory FAILED: [code=1] meson-internal__evince-pot
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