Public bug reported: I've seen a lintian warning that I tried to track down:
W: libvirt-l10n: empty-binary-package And indeed checking the build logs and installing it on systems confirmed that. root@q-build:~# dpkg -l libvirt-l10n; dpkg -L libvirt-l10n Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-===============-============-=========================================== ii libvirt-l10n 11.4.0-1ubuntu1 all virtualization library - localization files /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libvirt-l10n Debian is fine on 11.3 root@d-sid:~# dpkg -l libvirt-l10n; dpkg -L libvirt-l10n Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-=========================================== ii libvirt-l10n 11.3.0-2 all virtualization library - localization files /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/locale /usr/share/locale/as /usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libvirt.mo But this isn't broken in the recent merge - Questing a while ago was bad already root@q-build:~# dpkg -l libvirt-l10n; dpkg -L libvirt-l10n Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-===============-============-==================================== ii libvirt-l10n 11.0.0-2ubuntu6 all localization for the libvirt library /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libvirt-l10n In fact this is bad for quite a while and no one complained ever. We can thereby assume while it is broken it isn't bad - probably all using libvirt are happy to erad english? Noble $ dpkg -l libvirt-l10n; dpkg -L libvirt-l10n Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-=================-============-==================================== ii libvirt-l10n 10.0.0-2ubuntu8.7 all localization for the libvirt library /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libvirt-l10n Chances are this never worked on Ubuntu (or I'm too blind to see while writing this bug) and might be broken since this was introduced in +libvirt (8.10.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium + + Localization for libvirt has been moved to the libvirt-l10n + package, which gets installed by default but can later be + removed if a smaller footprint is desired. by commit bf99e82d622d390646b7ebd0d26d6ecee5a9a9ed Author: Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> Date: Mon Dec 27 16:08:54 2021 +0100 libvirt-l10n: New binary package This new binary package contains just the localization for libvirt and, while it gets installed by default due to libvirt0 recommending it, it can be removed if desired. This brings the installed size of the libvirt0 package from ~25 MiB to ~6 MiB and makes the arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share Lintian warning go away. This is reproducible in local sbuild - next step 1. compare and analyze what goes wrong, maybe start at - https://launchpadlibrarian.net/800133444/buildlog_ubuntu-questing-amd64.libvirt_11.4.0-1ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz vs - https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libvirt&arch=all&ver=11.3.0-2&stamp=1748901696&raw=1 2. break a local build and see where files are and where they are moving and when ** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Status: New ** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Wishlist Status: Confirmed ** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Oracular) Importance: Wishlist Status: Confirmed ** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Plucky) Importance: Wishlist Status: Confirmed ** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Questing) Importance: Medium Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Oracular) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Plucky) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Questing) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Noble) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Oracular) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Plucky) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Plucky) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Oracular) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Questing) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2115237 Title: we lost the translations in libvirt-l10n To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/2115237/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
