Adding ru metadata translation

[Korb]

Type of change(s)

• Bug fix
• Feature / enhancement
• Infrastructure / tooling (CI, build, deps, tests)
• Documentation

What changed and why

Russian text is currently region-independent. ru_RU ≡ ru_BY ≡ ru_KZ, etc.
The ru folder covers all Russian-language Android locales via fallback.
ru-RU only works for ru_RU; others see en-US.
Official F-Droid example — https://f-droid.org/docs/All_About_Descriptions_Graphics_and_Screenshots/#fastlane-structure

Checklist

• I read the contribution guidelines.
• I manually tested my changes on device/emulator (if applicable).
• I updated the "Unreleased" section in CHANGELOG.md (if applicable).
• I have self-reviewed my pull request (no typos, formatting errors, etc.).
• All checks are passing.

[naveensingh]

Good point. Three things:

• The filenames should use underscores, not hyphens. It should be full_description.txt and short_description.txt.
• The original ru-RU folder should be deleted now.
• I have scripts to do things org-wide, so I can do this for all other repos (unless you want to).

[Korb]

• The filenames should use underscores, not hyphens. It should be full_description.txt and short_description.txt.

Yes, of course, I can't figure out when this error crept in. Please forgive my inattention.

• The original ru-RU folder should be deleted now.

As you wish. Don't forget to fix the translation system links for new and old strings.

• I have scripts to do things org-wide, so I can do this for all other repos (unless you want to).

No problem.

[naveensingh]

So, shall I close this, or will you be fixing the filename?

(Maybe you are using a translator?)

[Korb]

I was wrong.

The F-Droid client displays the description from the ru-RU folder for all Russian-language locales (ru_*), including, for example, ru-BY, if the ru folder is missing. This is due to the specific way metadata is processed in fdroidserver and the client: the server stores localized data under the ru-RU key in index-v2.json, and the client uses it as the base for the ru language, ignoring regional differences or applying Android's extended fallback (since Android 7+), where an available regional variant (ru-RU) is considered suitable for other regions of the same language in the absence of an exact match or the base ru.

Thus, ru-RU is a universal variant, suitable for both Google Play and F-Droid, which correctly applies it to all Russian-language locales in the absence of ru.

And vice versa, at the moment this is even a harmful change, because you still need to have the ru-RU by Google Play requirement, which will entail the presence of two files with identical content without any benefit. There will always be a risk that the translation will be included in one of them and not included, or included with a different wording, in the other.

PS. I'm more of a linguist than a programmer, and this is the first time I've encountered the "requested changes" and "requested/pending a review" features on GitHub, and I don't know what exactly to do with them here.

[naveensingh]

Thanks for looking into it! I guess I need to be even more critical of new changes 😅

I'm more of a linguist than a programmer, and this is the first time I've encountered the "requested changes" and "requested/pending a review" features on GitHub, and I don't know what exactly to do with them here.

Good to know. I'm very curious about learning new languages.

Requested changes: Your pull request has been reviewed, and the reviewer wants you to make some changes.
Pending review: Self-explanatory.