SearXNG’s PR workflow to be in sync with Weblate [1] is not able to sync a newly added language / and I assume its the same when removing an unmaintained language.

Here is what I expected:

To add a new language e.g tt (Tatar):

  $ ./manage pyenv.cmd bash
  $ pybabel init -i searx/translations/messages.pot -d searx/translations -l tt
  creating catalog searx/translations/tt/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po based on searx/translations/messages.pot

  $ ./searxng_extra/update/update_locales.py

Create a PR [2] and merge the PR .. Then the CI starts weblate.push.translations

but this command just monitors modification off the messages.pot file

Here is what I tried first to sync:

Since a new language does not modify the message.pot the commands stops here without syncing the new language to weblate.

Then I tried to trigger by adding a dummy string in 899edee .. and the CI (weblate.push.translations) synced the modification of the messages.pot file to the translation branch in f75ddb0 .. but did not synced the new language (tt).

[1] https://docs.searxng.org/dev/translation.html#searxng-weblate-workflow
[2] #4106

My final workaround

To add new language the following steps are needed:

1. create and merge a PR for the new language (as described above)
2. manually commit the folder of the new language to the translations branch (like I added tt in 67abcc1)
3. To trigger CI (weblate.push.translations) a modification of the messages.pot file is needed / I just reverted 899edee from above in 1604a00