Build-time activation of pkgstriptranslations

Registered by Matt Zimmerman

As of Ubuntu 5.10, pkgstriptranslations (which removes and collects translation data from packages during their build process) works in part through a patch to debhelper, as a means to arrange for it to be called at the proper time during the build process.

This is less than ideal, and gives Joey Hess one more thing to complain about in his blog.

We should investigate other ways of hooking into the build process which don't involve debhelper.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Matt Zimmerman
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Martin Pitt
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Adam Conrad
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
None
Started by
Matt Zimmerman
Completed by
Matt Zimmerman

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Adam Conrad has applied the fix to the archive and it is running on the buildds. "Works great"

(?)

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