Not sure there is much you can do about it, but it is a pity that we ship a program prominently on the menus that doesn't have translations. In my case, I noticed the german translations missing, don't know if there are any others. Curiously, there _is_ a German mo file in the bitorrent package.
Especially as the Fedora 6 version was correctly translated.
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It is still the case that bittorrent isn't translated in Fedora 8. It was correctly translated up to Fedora 6 as I already mentioned above. I cannot change the status and the version myself, so it would be nice if someone could do that.
The FC6 package, when rebuilt for F8, exhibits the same problem. Similarly, the current current development package, when rebuilt for FC6, works fine on FC6. So it would appear that something has changed in the way that translations work in python since FC6 (perhaps this is a python 2.4 -> python 2.5 issue?). The bittorrent code handling translations has a lot of crufty stuff for Windows compatibility (including a settings dialog where the user can override the system language setting, though this has no effect on Fedora 7 onwards either). One approach to solving this might be to replace the existing translation code with the "standard" python code for the job. Unfortunately I know very little python so this is not something I can do myself.
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It is still wrong in Fedora 10. Haven't tested this in Fedora 11 yet. So please change the version of this bug.
Just to clarify, the package does include translations but due to a bug I haven't identified yet, has not been able to use those translations since the days of python 2.4.
Is this package still maintained by upstream?
(In reply to comment #9) > Is this package still maintained by upstream? No. There is a later version that doesn't suffer from this bug but there is no version later than 4.4.0 that has a GUI that works in Fedora. Upstream is now closed-source.
So shouldn't it be obsoleted in Fedora?
bittorrent was dropped from Fedora for the Fedora 16 release.