I sent this to pitti a few days ago, seems like he hasn't had a chance to get to it. In retrospect, he's probably not the only one that has the answer to this question so there's really no reason to have contacted him directly. Additionally, folks on this list might know of packages that could benefit from a rebuild if this change is made.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:36 PM Subject: pkgbinarymangler and building translated Sphinx documentation To: Martin Pitt <[email protected]> Hi Martin, I've been working on making the Ubuntu Packaging guide translatable. [1] I ran into an issue with sphinx's .mo files being stripped by pkgbinarymangler. With sphinx, in order to build the translated files you seem to need to have the sphinx.mo files for the languages you want installed. So any package that trys to use sphinx's baked in i18n support won't actually work. It seems this has already been reported against the sphinx source package. [2] Temporarily, we can work around this for the packaging guide, as it's not actually in the archive, by providing a non-stripped version in our PPA. Obviously this isn't ideal, and this might be breaking other packages we're not aware of. David Planella suggested I talk to you. He thinks that there might be an option on pkgbinarymangler (or perhaps it can be specified in the same package, on the control file?) to blacklist a package from getting its translations stripped. Could you take a look at this or advise me on how to move forward? [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide/+bug/943154 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sphinx/+bug/480913 Thanks! -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Maintainer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=a.starr.b%40gmail.com> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
