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[Bruno Bernardino <bruno.bernardino@xxxxxxxxx>]

This happened to me for Ubuntu Manual.

I had translated about 700 strings/texts and then, after one update, all
disappeared. If it was the case of such typos as referred in the first
message, I don't believe it'd make sense to remove ALL the translations,
right? Or did every single one of them had minor changes?

I have to say this only happened to me in the Ubuntu Manual project.
I've translated some other projects in Launchpad and it never happened
to me, so I could agree it is probably some problem in Ubuntu Manual's
settings while importing translations, or something like that. Anyway,
don't you have any other idea that could make this happen?

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Translations keep disappearing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535371
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Status in Launchpad Translations: Incomplete
Status in Ubuntu Manual: New
Status in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
I maintain the Ubuntu Manual translations (see lp:ubuntu-manual). I am getting fairly regular feedback from the translators of the project that some of the translations that they do disappear whenever the .pot file is updated. I haven't been able to reliably reproduce this, and I don't really want to start doing something deliberately destructive.

The workflow for translations is this: generate .pot file in branch's po/ directory using po4a (http://po4a.alioth.debian.org), push to LP. LP then imports the .pot file and this is translated. The translations are exported to lp:~jshholland/ubuntu-manual/manual-trans then merged back into the main lp:ubuntu-manual branch. Over this time, the content of the manual has changed, so I re-run po4a to regenerate the .pot file. The .po files are also set up to import into Rosetta. Lather, rinse, repeat.

If you have suggestions, please point them out :).