Bug#885108: inkscape: Consider dropping gnome-pkg-tools Build-Depends

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:01:02PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> (wouldn't that imply that Canonical was supposed to provide support for
> it?)

Yes, I don't speak for Canonical but my impression is that Canonical
would rather not commit to providing support for inkscape.

> I know nothing about l10n/i18n.  Do somebody need to do anything
> special to get the translations out of the langpack?

There's a lot I don't know about Ubuntu language packs. But I think a
rebuild should be all that's needed. (I am guessing that the next
18.04 language pack simply won't include inkscape translations. The
rebuild is so that Launchpad won't strip the translations during the
build so that the app will have regular upstream bundled
translations.)

> Also, what about anything that was done through
> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape ?

Well those won't be used by anything any more. Optionally, you could
opt into Ubuntu language packs if you wanted (only affects Ubuntu
obviously) by adding the X-Ubuntu-Use-Langpack: yes header to your
debian/control. See Evolution for instance:
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-evolution/unstable/evolution/debian/control?view=markup

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha