Menu entry is not translatable

Binary package hint: hwtest

The menu entry (menu name and tooltip) under System -> Adminstration -> Hardware Testing is not translatable.

This is due to the fact that the strings from the gtk/checkbox-gtk.desktop.in desktop entry file are not correctly extracted by intltool-extract. In turn, this is due to the file type being specified as [type: gettext/rfc822deb] on the POTFILES.in file.

Luckily, this gets partially hidden because the string used in the name of the menu is exactly the same as another one used in the package, which does make it to the template, allowing it to be translated and picked up by gettext at runtime. However, the tooltip remains untranslated.

Please find attached a patch to fix this issue. Alternatively, I have created a branch at https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~dpm/checkbox/l10nfix (lp:~dpm/checkbox/l10nfix) from where this patch comes from. You can also merge the change directly from there if appropriate.