msgmerge ignores base language

[PawelSpoon]

Describe the issue

our service team did update to 4.6.2 on 22.5. now a week after team reports that strings added to pot file do not get propagated to po files. we use monolingual gettext, have base language english and set as editable. this setting was agreed upon together with you guys. until recently the installed msgmerge addon would also update the english base file

I already tried

i have added a string to a different test component, pulled, checked for updates, changed edit base file flag etc.

To Reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to git, add a key to pot file and commit change (branch linked with weblate)
2. In weblate ui go to component, and execute a pull
3. go to translate and check if new strings are available: no they arent
4. go to git and check if weblate did a commit: yes it did but only for de, not for en po file
5. go to container and checks log (result see above)
6. create a new translation and check: new strings are not available in webui.
7. go and check git for new translation: it contains all the strings (old and new)

Expected behavior

also base file should be updated with new keys as in earlier versions

Screenshots

Exception traceback
celery-notify stderr | [2021-06-01 12:23:30,527: INFO/MainProcess] Received task: weblate.accounts.tasks.notify_change[ccb16d85-32c1-41ea-9605-89fc46aea213]
6/1/2021 2:23:30 PM uwsgi stderr | [2021-06-01 12:23:30,570: DEBUG/562] tfms-cus/stmd: running post_update addon: weblate.gettext.msgmerge
6/1/2021 2:23:30 PM uwsgi stderr | [2021-06-01 12:23:30,633: INFO/562] tfms-cus/stmd: weblate.gettext.msgmerge addon skipped, new base was not updated

Server configuration and status

Weblate installation: weblate.org service / Docker / PyPI / other

Weblate deploy checks

Additional context

[nijel]

Weblate looks at the changes and triggers msgmerge only in case the pot file was changed. It seems like it didn't work as expected here.

From which version did you upgrade? Maybe this would help when searching for the regression...

[PawelSpoon]

Hi,
to me it seems like:

• it gets triggered by pot file change
• BUT it skips the base image

and until base image file is not updated weblate does not show the new key in any of the languages..

[igorjesih]

Hello,
Weblate was upgraded from version 4.2.2. (docker tag 4.2.2-3)

[nijel]

The log says:

weblate.gettext.msgmerge addon skipped, new base was not updated

It is not updating any files at this point...

Weblate was upgraded from version 4.2.2. (docker tag 4.2.2-3)

Ah, that's big step, that will be hard to look at the changes...

[PawelSpoon]

The log says:

weblate.gettext.msgmerge addon skipped, new base was not updated

It is not updating any files at this point...

Weblate was upgraded from version 4.2.2. (docker tag 4.2.2-3)

Ah, that's big step, that will be hard to look at the changes...

yes it is not updating on purpose.
but if i interpret the commits in git correctly:

• it does react on pot file change
• it skips the en base language file
• it updates the de file

[nijel]

Okay, in that case the log you have posted is not from the situation when the de file was updated - it is from the situation when no file was updated.

[nijel]

The behavior you describe might be caused by 3178f88

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