Comment 34 for bug 13717

(In reply to comment #33)
> (In reply to comment #32)
> >> For a development release we update the language packs fairly often. For stable
> > releases we plan to ship update language packs every month. These packages will
> > only contain files that actually changed, the bulk of translations are in the
> > language-pack-foo-base packages.
>
> So users of the stable version will have translations which are out of sync with
> the programs they have installed, do I understand this correct?

No, a stable distibution has no version changes for the packages (only security
fixes) so the string don't changes.

> This is a big setback imho from warty, what do users gain having translations
> which are out of sync with the programs they have installed?

You sync the other way. The goal is not to have the translations out of sync,
but different packages for the translations and the software. That allows to
update the translation in a stable branch without updating new packages for the
applications, to make localized CDs, etc

> I _dont_ want to use a development release, I am a translator therefore I have
> that installed along with my stable release, so that I can test it before the
> new release has been made and report bugs before it is too late.

Right, the system is in work and not perfect yet. What you face at the moment is
a cache issue described in the other bug. We have updated translation when
required for the GNOME updates (ie: I've asked to Martin to force some sync just
after the 2.10 uploads).