1.27.0: not ready for gettext 0.22

[kloczek]

rm -f hu.gmo && /usr/bin/msgmerge --for-msgfmt -o hu.1po hu.po mate-power-manager.pot && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o hu.gmo hu.1po && rm -f hu.1po
hu.1po:980: 'msgstr' is not a valid C format string, unlike 'msgid'. Reason: In the directive number 2, the argument size specifier is invalid.
/usr/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
hu.1po: 380 translated messages.

[raveit65]

https://app.transifex.com/mate/MATE/dashboard/

[kloczek]

Hmm 🤔 .. that link has nothing to do with reported issue.

[kloczek]

gentle ping .. 🤔

[raveit65]

This is an translation error caused by translators at transifex.
For that reason i gave you the link to transifex.
This have to be fixed there.

[kloczek]

On that link are only statistics of the translations.

[raveit65]

You need a account, become a member of your language team and translate.
Sorry i can't help you more.

[kloczek]

Why I need such help?
Broken file is in this git repo.
If fix is already present at transifex why this cannot be commited? 🤔

[raveit65]

Is the fix already present at transifex?
Why do you think that?
Btw. we don't have this issue in CI.

[kloczek]

You pointed on transifex as place where I can find solution.
I'm not thinking about anything.

[kloczek]

Btw. we don't have this issue in CI.

Again .. I;'m using gettext 0.22.

[raveit65]

You pointed on transifex as place where I can find solution.

No, you should become a translator of your language and fix it for yourself.
I can't do that for you because I don't speak Hungary language

[kloczek]

This about HUNGARIAN translation.
I'm Polish and I'm not translator.
Fact is that there is no fixes in git repo.

[paravoid]

This is breaking the build on recent Debian systems, see https://bugs.debian.org/1074753. In fact, it has resulted in mate-power-manager being removed from testing/trixie.

I'm not a Hungarian speaker either, but the issue is with the format specifier, not the text: replacing %.0lf%% with %.0f%% (like the original English text, and every other translation) fixes this.

[lukefromdc]

Than we probably need to remove the broken translation from the build. This needs the attention of one of the team members that knows more about the translation system than I do. We are getting problems with NEW translations that are broken in all packages now, which means the translations cannot be updated and any releases must use the old translations. If they cannot be fixed they need to be moved to a branch and removed from master. This problem should be considered an emergency as it has the potential to kill MATE as a DE offered by distros, or even make it useless in all languages but English if Native Language Support becomes broken.

[paravoid]

I understand that there is probably a wider translation maintainership issue to consider here. I'm not too familiar with the translation issues you're mentioning but I trust that you know best :)

That said, I wouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good here: we're talking about an obvious single character patch that would immediately fix this build failure. I'd commit that, and then perhaps continue discussing how to handle broken translations?

[lukefromdc]

Translations are done at Transifex not here, any corrections need to be done on that end. I myself do not know how to fix this, until someone does fix it I cannot include any translation updates in any new release