Applications should generally install their translations on /usr/share/locale, or to be more correct, to a location specified by the --prefix option at build time (i.e. $prefix/locale).
The /usr/share/locale-langpack directory is an Ubuntu-specific feature to allow translations be shipped in language packs. However, this only applies to packages in the main repository, and not to packages in universe, which should ship their translations in /usr/share/locale (well, $prefix/locale). In any case, the /usr/share/locale-langpack should never be hardcoded in an upstream application. The merge proposal submitted a while ago in this branch should fix this issue: https://code.launchpad.net/~dpm/gui-ufw/improve-i18n/+merge/33303 It's just a matter of modifying the setup.py file to use python- distutils-extra and using standard practices instead of re-writing code to manage translations there. I'll be more than happy to help further on this. ** Changed in: gui-ufw Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Gufw Developers, which is subscribed to gui-ufw in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/729814 Title: gufw installs translation files in /usr/share/locale-langpack Status in Gufw: Confirmed Status in “gui-ufw” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: gufw installs translation files in /usr/share/locale-langpack, they should reside in /usr/share/locale $ dpkg -L gufw ... /usr/share/locale-langpack /usr/share/locale-langpack/lv /usr/share/locale-langpack/lv/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale-langpack/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gufw.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gufw.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/ast /usr/share/locale-langpack/ast/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale-langpack/ast/LC_MESSAGES/gufw.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/fo /usr/share/locale-langpack/fo/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale-langpack/fo/LC_MESSAGES/gufw.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/ja /usr/share/locale-langpack/ja/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale-langpack/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gufw.mo ... etc. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gufw-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gufw-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
