Bug#875272: gnome-clocks: Interface localisation does not work

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed patch

Am 10.09.2017 um 09:32 schrieb Vladimir Isaev:

> strace gnome-clocks for gnome-clocks.mo:
>     open("/locale/ru_RU.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-clocks.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
>     ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>     open("/locale/ru_RU.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-clocks.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
>     ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>     open("/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-clocks.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
>     (No such file or directory)
>     open("/locale/ru.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-clocks.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
>     ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>     open("/locale/ru.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-clocks.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
>     ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>     open("/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-clocks.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
>     such file or directory)
> 
> So, for whatever reason gnome-clocks does not search for interface localisation at /usr/share/locale.

Thanks for your bug report.
This is indeed broken. It's a result of the switch to the meson build
system. The broken code is this:

> conf.set_quoted('GNOMELOCALEDIR', join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('datadir'), '/locale'))

The API doc says this about join_paths [1]:

Joins the given strings into a file system path segment. For example
join_paths('foo', 'bar') results in foo/bar. If any one of the
individual segments is an absolute path, all segments before it are
dropped. That means that join_paths('foo', '/bar') returns /bar.

So the trivial fix is as simple as the attached patch.
That said, it's unfortunate that gnome-photos redefines localedir when
meson already provides the localedir variable, see meson --help →
--localedir


[1] http://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#join_paths
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