Comment 5 for bug 1756547

There was a long IRC discussion about this issue yesterday:

https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2018/03/28/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t12:21

I proved to be wrong about what has been causing the import failures: It's not the msgstr[2] entries, but the missing %d in the msgstr[0] entries.

However, the latest gettext version allows such missing %d, while the xenial gettext version does not, and that has been preventing these strings from being imported.

The plan is to upgrade the xenial gettext version in LP and with that solve the problem for both gnome-shell and other affected packages. Hopefully that can be done in due time and proved to work. If not, we also identified a possible workaround which would require certain modifications of the .pot files in all affected packages.

Assigning myself to the Ubuntu Translations bug task for now to more easily monitor the progress.