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[Matthew East <matt@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm quite surprised that there are as many as 13% common strings between
ubuntu-docs/oneiric and ubuntu-docs/natty. Essentially ubuntu-docs in
oneiric is completely and entirely different to ubuntu-docs in natty. I
cannot comment on whether the approach used to produce this figure is
valid.

However, there are two places where many translation teams should be
able to recover a large number of translations:

1. ubuntu-docs/oneiric is very similar to ubuntu/natty/gnome-user-docs
in Ubuntu, so it should be possible to recover a lot of translations
from there[1]:

I merged translations from ubuntu/natty/gnome-user-docs into ubuntu-
docs/oneiric on 1 August 2011 but it is possible that some translation
teams have made progress since then. It looks like an example is
Simplified Chinese, who at that time did not have any translations in
their po file [3] but who now have the template practically fully
translated.

Of course, Launchpad should share translations automatically so when
translating ubuntu-docs/oneiric, if a string appears which has already
been translated elsewhere, it should appear as a suggestion.

[1] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/gnome-user-docs/+pots/gnome-user-docs-user-guide 
[2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-docs/oneiric/revision/12
[3] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-docs/oneiric/revision/12#ubuntu-help/zh_CN/zh_CN.po

2. ubuntu-docs/oneiric takes a lot of strings from gnome-user-docs
upstream - I do not know exactly how many but I guestimate  that it is
about half. Translations can therefore be uploaded from upstream to
ubuntu-docs/oneiric. (This isn't a point which helps Simplified Chinese,
because upstream translations in that language are at 0% [4]).

[4] http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/gnome-user-docs/master/gnome-
help/zh_CN

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882664

Title:
  no Chinese/Simplified translation in oneiric

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged
Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Even with the latest language packs (11.10+20111025) from proposed
  installed, Ubuntu Desktop Guide does not appear to display in
  Chinese/Simplified (the only language I checked).

  Digging a little, it appears that the translated .page files are
  delivered by language-pack-gnome-LANG-base pkgs.

  It seems the Spanish language packs includes them, but zh-hans (for
  Chinese simplified) language packs do not:

  u@u-virtual-machine:/usr/share/help-langpack/zh_CN$ dpkg -L language-pack-gnome-es-base | grep "ubuntu-help/index\.page"
  /usr/share/help-langpack/es/ubuntu-help/index.page
  u@u-virtual-machine:/usr/share/help-langpack/zh_CN$ dpkg -L language-pack-gnome-zh-hans-base | grep "ubuntu-help/index\.page"
  u@u-virtual-machine:/usr/share/help-langpack/zh_CN$

  language-pack-gnome-zh-hans-base:
    Installed: 1:11.10+20111025
    Candidate: 1:11.10+20111025
    Version table:
   *** 1:11.10+20111025 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-proposed/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:11.10+20111006 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
  language-pack-gnome-es-base:
    Installed: 1:11.10+20111025
    Candidate: 1:11.10+20111025
    Version table:
   *** 1:11.10+20111025 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-proposed/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:11.10+20111006 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages

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