Buggy and old Debian translations takes preference over correct D-I translations from launchpad.net in the debian-installer templates

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

I've noticed, that Ubiquity sometimes shows buggy and old translations from Debian instead of corrected translations from launchpad.net in the debian-installer templates :(

For example "Mount point" was incorrectly translated in Lithuanian Debian D-I translation, I've fixed this translation 6 years ago, but Ubiquity still displays old incorrect translation "Prijungimo taškas", see
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/debian-installer/+pots/debian-installer/lt/706/+translate

Please fix this problem before Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring) release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm afraid I'm simply not prepared to go to the Herculean ongoing effort necessary to synchronise translations between d-i upstream and Launchpad for 50-odd languages I don't speak. Could you please forward your corrections to Debian instead? It shouldn't take you very long and it would be much simpler.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

You could simply include d-i translations from Launchpad in Ubuntu d-i packages, like all other Ubuntu packages include translations from Launchpad

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Other packages typically do that via language packs, but those aren't usable in the installer. Maintaining ongoing deltas to source packages is much harder work than having translations added in bulk via language packs.

In the years that have passed since my last comment, the corrections could have been forwarded to Debian and would by now be in Ubuntu.