Comment # 55 on bug 1027925 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #54)
> (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #53)
> > I had a quick chat with Dominique and it looks like the locale bundles are
> > going to be dropped soon anyway.
> 
> Any idea what timescale "soon" would be?
It "just" needs to be deleted and the DVD images adjusted, which might take
some time. Adding Dominique to CC.

> I'm asking because I meanwhile know how to fix it.
> 
> The problem is not Qt5 itself, the translation loader that is generated by
> extra-cmake-modules would need to be modified to look in
> /usr/share/locale-bundle/ too:
> https://cgit.kde.org/extra-cmake-modules.git/tree/modules/ECMQmLoader.cpp.in

Ah, that's where the code hides... I looked at ki18n but only found gettext
stuff...

> Should not be difficult to do, by manually changing the generated code I
> just built a modified kwidgetaddons package that successfully loads the
> translations from /locale instead of /usr/share/locale/... ;-)
> 
> I suppose I could submit a fix tomorrow at the latest.