Plural messages reported as having new suggestions while no new suggestions are displayed

[Adi Roiban]

Launcpad is reporting there are new suggestions for this po file, but I can not see them:

https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/gnome-power-manager/+pots/gnome-power-manager/ro/+translate?show=new_suggestions

Any idea where are the new suggestions or why is this po file reported as having 3 new suggestions?

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Indeed, and this is what we have in the DB:

lpmain_staging=> select translationmessage.id, translationmessage.is_imported, translationmessage.msgstr0, translationmessage.msgstr1, translationmessage.msgstr2, translationmessage.date_created, translationmessage.date_reviewed from translationmessage join language on language=language.id where potmsgset=8159727 and language.code='ro';
    id | is_imported | msgstr0 | msgstr1 | msgstr2 | date_created | date_reviewed
-----------+-------------+----------+---------+----------+----------------------------+----------------------------
 182435604 | t | 15639594 | 7843906 | 16656767 | 2007-09-23 14:24:44.753061 | 2007-10-30 08:25:11.396216
  66965158 | f | 7843905 | 7843906 | | 2006-12-02 23:27:17.589556 | 2006-12-02 23:27:17.589556
 109089390 | f | 15639594 | | | 2008-01-15 11:33:27.231931 |

So, the "new" suggestion is the one from 2009-01-15, but it has the same translation for plural form 0, and no translations for other plural forms (i.e. empty translations). Because of the way we display plural forms (i.e. suggestions are per-form, instead of per-entire message), we normalize out these messages in the UI display code. Basically, the only "new" suggestions that should be displayed are empty suggestions for the two latter plural forms. Perhaps we can instead show these, though we would have to check what will we break (i.e. why do we hide these otherwise).

What we should do is change the display of these messages, which is something Henning started on a while ago, but we never got it completed.

At the moment, this is a very low priority bug since I can't imagine this bug to appear very often.

Work-around: submit a new suggestion and then dismiss it.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Henning suggested a better work-around: just dismiss all the suggestions.