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[Bruno Bernardino <bruno.bernardino@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel,

If it were just a few strings, I'd agree with you, it was "normal"
(though I don't think it's good for a translation system that can
suggest translations based on the same strings on other projects, not to
be able to make a suggestion of an already-submitted translation, but
that's another case, and I agree it can be somewhat difficult to make it
happen), but all of them were removed, so the problem was another. I
have to say that such event hasn't occurred recently (only one or
another text/string goes missing), but if the first event can't be
justified, who can say it won't happen again?

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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 :).