Translations listed as new suggestions after more than 6 months

[Adi Roiban]

In the Ubuntu Romanian team, while monitoring for translations that needs review we have discovered an strange behavior.

A couple of weeks ago the translations that needs review counter was 0.
Yesterday the translations for `gnome-power-manager` were listed in the general table as having one new message that needs review, but clicking the `needs review` link shows that there are 44 messages that needs review.

Most of these suggestions are listed as being suggests at 2010-11-14 , but they popped up yesterday:

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

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Any idea what went wrong?

Thanks!

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Hi Henning.

I think this issue is because syncronisation preserves the dates of the imported messages. can you confirm this?

[Henning Eggers (henninge)]

Right, the date is preserved. What could have happened is that the translations where reset (set to be untranslated). In that case old suggestions would re-appear. Also, setting up upstream translation sharing will cause translations from upstream to appear as new suggestions.

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

In the case of gnome-power-manager there are no shared upstream translations... or at least the PO file does not mention any upstream shared translations.

In the same time, the translations were not reset... if I will reset the translation there would be more than 1 new suggestion.