fwupd translations are missing from langpacks

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This is intentional behavior in Ubuntu - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Internationalisation/Packaging

Thanks for pointing to this documentation, but if understood correctly, fwupd.mo should be part of lang-pack-* package(s), right?

But looking in (for example):

https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/all/language-pack-cs-base/filelist
(language-pack-cs is empty package)

There is no such file as /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/fwupd.mo

It seems, that translations are imported in Rosetta (Ubuntu translation system):
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupd,
but not part of build process of lang-pack-* packages.

In mentioned documentation
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Internationalisation/Packaging
there are no hints regarding meson build system (which upstream fwupd is using) - maybe problem with integration there?

In any case, would it be possible to look at it please? It is really unfortunate, that Ubuntu users are prevented to benefit from translations, which in situation, when firmware updates are offered to inexperienced (and non-English speakers) trough Gnome Software / KDE Discover and they don't understand instructions, they get (and possibly will brick their devices).
Thanks for all your work on lvfs infrastructure (and growing list of vendors/devices, you managed to onboard) and fwupd tools - greatly appreciated! - but missing localization (which is done) is the last thing remaining to perfection :-)

FYI @seb128 asked on #launchpad about this, and I checked that the base language pack exported by Launchpad does contain .po files for fwupd, so it looks like this may be something that needs to be fixed in langpack-o-matic.

Thanks for the comments. Added a task for `langpack-o-matic`.

I've found the issue and I'm going to propose a fix, we missed impish but it will be fixed for the LTS

The issue there is that the langpack category is determined by checking for keywords in the description/section/build-depends, gnome or gtk aren't mentioned but it build-depends on 'umockdev' which includes 'kde' and makes it sorted as a kde component. Those langpacks aren't built anymore so the template is simply ignore.

I've proposed a fix now
https://code.launchpad.net/~seb128/langpack-o-matic/fwupd-category-override/+merge/410545

As well as some extra logging that would have made clearer the issue there
https://code.launchpad.net/~seb128/langpack-o-matic/import-extra-log/+merge/410543

it's fixed now and the current tarball export on https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+language-packs includes fwupd

Great! Many thanks for fixing this :-)