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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> With the new translation sharing between ProductSeries and
> SourcePackages, Packagings will have significant side-effects.  Creating
> a Packaging will cause translations to be merged, so that they can be
> shared going forward.  Deleting a packaging will cause the translations
> to be split.  Merging and splitting can cause information loss, so it is
> best to avoid bogus merges.
>

What sort of information loss?

jml