Please, update translations of languages, they are really old.

[Julian Alarcon]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

An example, Ubiquity in Spanish have many mistakes and old words, many people is confused by this bug. Latinoamerican people did'nt know what is a "fichero".

And, some strings are not unified, like the example from the image where some strings start with capital letters, and others with lower-case.

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

This is the url of translations on Lucid:
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/debian-installer/+pots/debian-installer/es/+translate

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

Off course I know about this policy:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Upstream/Debian/DebianInstaller

But, we must to do something, old bugs (now marked as Won't fix) are talking about the same, old translations.

[Jorge González (jorge-gonzalez-gonzalez)]

Julián, why are you assigning the bug to me? I have nothing to do with Debian.

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

Sorry, my mistake.

[Jorge González (jorge-gonzalez-gonzalez)]

Thanks Julián.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Assigning to Spanish translators to have a look at, although I'm not sure if the bug is still relevant. Please update to "Fix Released" or "Invalid" as you judge best.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Many of the Ubiquity translations comes from debian-installer translations, which in turn comes from Debian, i.e. the Debian translations takes preference over the Ubuntu translations in the debian-installer templates. For example, the filesystem names comes from Debian, and we (the Ubuntu translators) can't do anything about that, except wait for the Debian translators to fix the translation issues.

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino (jfs)]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 07:59:26PM -0000, Ricardo Pérez López wrote:
> Many of the Ubiquity translations comes from debian-installer
> translations, which in turn comes from Debian, i.e. the Debian
(...)

The Debian-installer translation is fairly complete. I'm not sure
why this bug is forwarded to the Debian translation team.

If there are any issues in the translation of the Debian installer to
Spanish I would suggest either submitting a clear bug report with specific
details to the Debian Bug Tracking System or, if unsure, discuss the "issues"
in the Debian Spanish translation team mailing list (debian-l10n-spanish AT
debian.org).

As for the specific complaints in this bug report:

 - the use of 'fichero' as a translation for 'file' (as in 'sistema
    de ficheros' for 'filesystem') is a perfectly valid translation
    in neutral Spanish. If users want to have a localised translation
    variations for es_AR, es_MX or any other 'es' variant can be generated
    based on the existing translation

 - the inconsistent use of capitalisation can be, indeead, considered
   a bug. I have updated the Debian translation of the installer in SVN.

Regards

Javier

> translations takes preference over the Ubuntu translations in the
> debian-installer templates. For example, the filesystem names comes from
> Debian, and we (the Ubuntu translators) can't do anything about that,
> except wait for the Debian translators to fix the translation issues.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
> Status: Triaged => Invalid
>
> --
> Please, update translations of languages, they are really old.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549712
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Thank you very much, Javier :).