Package: variety
Version: 0.9.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
The Variety UI is displayed in English even when the session uses a locale
for which Variety ships a translation. I reproduced this with German.
Steps to reproduce:
$ env LANGUAGE=de LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python3 \
-c 'from variety.Util import _; print(_("_Next"))'
_Next
Expected result:
_Nächstes
Cause:
Since upstream commit 3d2778d9ffbd302fb48603ed0be5fcde085645b2,
variety/Util.py unconditionally binds the "variety" gettext domain to the
package-local directory variety/locale:
gettext.bindtextdomain(
"variety", localedir=importlib.resources.files("variety") / "locale"
)
The Debian package does not install that directory. Its compiled catalogs
are instead installed in the standard system location, for example:
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/variety.mo
Consequently gettext searches a nonexistent directory and silently returns
the untranslated msgids. The catalogs themselves are valid; rebinding the
domain to /usr/share/locale returns the expected German translation.
Possible fix:
Please patch Variety to use the system locale directory when the
package-local locale directory does not exist. Alternatively, install the
compiled catalogs under the package-local variety/locale directory expected
by the upstream code.
This affects the indicator menu as well as the rest of the gettext-based UI.
The issue appears to be specific to the new 0.9.1 packaging/layout.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 7.1.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
C.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages variety depends on:
ii gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 2.44.7+dfsg-1
ii gir1.2-gexiv2-0.16 0.16.2-1
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 2.90.0-1
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.24.52-1
ii gir1.2-notify-0.7 0.8.8-1+b1
ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.58.0-1
ii imagemagick 8:7.1.2.31+dfsg1-1
ii imagemagick-7.q16 [imagemagick] 8:7.1.2.31+dfsg1-1
ii python3 3.14.7-3
ii python3-bs4 4.15.0-1
ii python3-cairo 1.29.0-1+b1
ii python3-configobj 5.0.9-1
ii python3-dbus 1.4.0-1+b2
ii python3-gi 3.57.1-1+b1
ii python3-gi-cairo 3.57.1-1+b1
ii python3-httplib2 0.32.0-1
ii python3-lxml 6.1.0-1+b1
ii python3-packaging 26.2-2
ii python3-pil 12.3.0-1+b1
ii python3-requests 2.34.2-1
Versions of packages variety recommends:
ii fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-9.2
ii gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 0.5.94-1.1
ii libavif-gdk-pixbuf 1.4.2-1
ii procps 2:4.0.7-1
ii webp-pixbuf-loader 0.2.7-3
Versions of packages variety suggests:
pn feh | nitrogen <none>
ii gnome-shell-extension-appindicator 64-2
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