xml_mimetypes5 and kcoreaddons

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 12:39 AM David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On mardi 14 juillet 2020 19:35:41 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dimarts, 14 de juliol de 2020, a les 15:14:38 CEST, Jonathan Riddell va
> escriure:
> > > We're playing with translations in neon packages and looking at
> > > kcoreaddons
> > > the tars have
> > > xml_mimetypes5
> > > But we can't see anything in the code which uses this.  Do these
> > > translations get used?
> >
> > Yes, the translations are used.
> >
> > No, they don't need to be on the tarball.
> >
> > The translations are used at scripty time to to fill
> > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/-/blob/master/src/mimetypes/k
> > de5.xml
> >
> > Luigi recently did a change so the files ending in _xml_mimetypes.po don't
> > get added to the release service tarballs.
> >
> > This didn't work here because a) KF5 is using a different branch of
> > release-tools b) the file doesn't follow the same naming pattern than the
> > rest of xml mimetype files we have.
> >
> > If DavidF is fine adapting his scripts to not release files ending in
> > _xml_mimetypes.po (i.e. him or someone else patches the scripts) i
> > volunteer to do the small patch for src/mimetypes/XmlMessages.sh to rename
> > it.
>
> Fine with me, but don't we have more cases of the same kind, with different
> names? Any case of translations being "integrated" into some file leads to
> this. Desktop files, mimetype XML, is there really nothing else?

It's a bit more "fluid" than one would hope. Looking at
update_translations the following patterns exist:

- created by XmlMessages.sh unfortunately arbitrary named files but
largely using the standard suffix Albert mentioned (the only other
violation I can find with lxr is kpat)
- created by StaticMessages.sh also arbitrary, only used for websites
I think (?)
- ._desktop_.po automatic - shouldn't be shipped
- ._json_.po automatic - shouldn't be shipped
- .appdata.po automatic - shouldn't be shipped
- .metadata.po automatic - shouldn't be shipped

(of course also Messages.sh with arbitrary naming, but that's the
regular translations so they need shipping ^^)

HS