/usr/share/locale translations have precedence over /usr/share/locale-langpack
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Translations |
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Bug Description
Talking with kelemengabor on IRC, we noticed that translations from some packages get installed both normally and as part of language packs. Here is the example of apt, but there are others (iso-codes, debconf-i18n, dpkg, xdg-user-dirs):
/usr/share/
/usr/share/
This is probably because of the fact that the installer needs to have the translations for these packages during installation, and the non-language-pack translations are just left over after installation.
The problem with this is not with actual space, but with the prededence of translations in /usr/share/locale over /usr/share/
What's the rationale for preferring translations in /usr/share/locale? Could we not choose /usr/share/
Subscribing Martin, as he's probably the best one to comment on that