This is my test on artful: I made this modification:
$ cat /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.locale1.policy | grep '"systemd"' -A 1 <message gettext-domain="systemd">Authentication is required to set the system locale.</message> <defaults> i.e. I dropped the inline translations for that message. Then I renamed /usr/share/gettext/its/polkit.{its,loc}: $ ls /usr/share/gettext/its/polkit* /usr/share/gettext/its/polkit.its.bak /usr/share/gettext/its/polkit.loc.bak I switched to a non-admin user and run: localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and the prompt was translated dynamically. So yes, they are probably only used at build time in some sense. But people use xgettext() and similar tools manually too, and if we move those files to libpolkit-gobject-1-dev, you'd need to install that package in order to extract messages from polkit files. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1707898 Title: systemd translations are not synced with upstream Status in systemd: New Status in Ubuntu Translations: New Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Translations for systemd are outdated because they do not seem to be synced with the upstream ones. For example the Czech one: Launchpad: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/+source/systemd/+pots/systemd/cs/+translate - 0% translated Upstream: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/po/cs.po - 100% translated To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/systemd/+bug/1707898/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp