synaptic

Translations skewed for synaptic

Bug #740153 reported by Kjetil Birkeland Moe on 2011-03-22

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	synaptic	Triaged	High	Unassigned
	synaptic (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

For a recent Ubuntu upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10, Synaptics have got a whole lot of translations wrong. Meaning, the suggestions have ended up on wrong strings. This must have happend quite recently, as I have never seen as severe mishaps before. It is also weird how this new 10.10 upgrade uses wrong strings for Synaptic, while older upgrades don't have problems with these strings.

An example is found here: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/synaptic/+pots/synaptic/nb/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=gir , where the Current translation is terribly wrong for string 337, and has not been like this for a very long time.

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j.c.sackett (jcsackett) on 2011-03-22

affects:	launchpad → null
Changed in null:
status:	New → Invalid

j.c.sackett (jcsackett) on 2011-03-22

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Kjetil Birkeland Moe (kjetilbmoe) wrote on 2011-03-22:

Sot his is not a bug anymore? Well, the problem persists. Synaptic is useless in its current state for people upgrading. Though I still believe it's a Launchpad issue ...

j.c.sackett (jcsackett) on 2011-03-22

affects:	null → launchpad
Changed in launchpad:
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	Invalid → Triaged

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Ole Andreas Utstumo (tykjepelken) wrote on 2011-03-22:

po_synaptic-nb_main.po Edit (85.6 KiB, text/plain)

I am able to find many of these in Maverick as well, and it's very likely they all stem from the upstream translations: https://translations.launchpad.net/synaptic/main/+pots/synaptic/nb/+translate (I've added the .po file to the bug report)

Seems like a .po file import into Launchpad in 2006 might be the villain, judging the Launchpad Translations Administrators role in the translations. Strangely, the bad strings were appearantly in some cases approved by members of the team or LTA.

Example: https://translations.launchpad.net/synaptic/main/+pots/synaptic/nb/+translate?start=160

Cleaning and fully translating the upstream project should be the cure.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2011-04-05:

Moved to synaptic as the fix seems to be 'fix the data'

affects:

launchpad → synaptic