Language pack generation error for locale "es_ES"

[Ricardo Pérez López]

I think there's an error in the langpacks generation from Rosetta.

I think the langpacks generation procedure is using obsolete Rosetta's
templates.

The last langpacks updates brings many strings translated in the es_ES
locale:

ricardo at yuggoth:~ $ ls -l /usr/share/locale-langpack/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/
total 148
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8679 2006-08-02 13:36 acl.mo
20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16546 2006-08-02 13:36 adduser.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2066 2006-08-02 12:25 adept_installer.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2303 2006-08-02 12:25 adept.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1751 2006-08-02 12:25 adept_notifier.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1925 2006-08-02 12:25 adept_updater.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   869 2006-08-02 12:25 akregator_konqplugin.mo
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16130 2006-08-02 12:25 amarok.mo
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14107 2006-08-02 13:36 dpkg.mo
 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7310 2006-08-02 13:36 eject.mo
 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6661 2006-08-02 13:25 gnome-desktop-2.0.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3862 2006-08-02 13:25 gnome-menus.mo
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15178 2006-08-02 13:25 gnome-panel-2.0.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   748 2006-08-02 12:25 kdictapplet.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1306 2006-08-02 12:25 ktorrent.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   934 2006-08-02 13:36
launchpad-integration.mo
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10048 2006-08-02 13:36 tuxpaint.mo
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   576 2006-08-02 12:25 ubiquity.mo

However, according to the Rosetta's template for the "es_ES" locale,
there must be no translations at all, because the "es_ES" locale is not
translated, as you can see here:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+lang/es_ES

(Translatable items: 325365 
Untranslated: 325362)

Look, for example, the gnome-panel-2.0 template:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/gnome-panel/+pots/gnome-panel-2.0/es_ES/+translate

(Messages: 565 
To do: 564)

Almost absolutly empty. However, if you look at the gnome-panel-2.0.mo
file installed in my system, you can see many translated strings:

ricardo at yuggoth:~ $ strings
-eS /usr/share/locale-langpack/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-panel-2.0.mo
[...]
Project-Id-Version: gnome-panel
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL at ADDRESS>
POT-Creation-Date: 2006-05-23 18:53+0000
PO-Revision-Date: 2006-05-25 16:51+0000
Last-Translator: Natalia Montoro López <azaroa at gmail.com>
Language-Team: Spanish (Spain) <es_ES at li.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1

%1$s
%2$s
%1$s, %2$s
%A %B de %d
%A, %B de %d de %Y
%H:%M
%H:%M:%S
%l:%M %p
%l:%M:%S %p
%a %b de %e
%d %b
%l:%M %p
%l:%M:%S %p
%s no sirve para nada. Solo ocupa espacio en el disco y tiempo durante
la compilación, y si se carga también ocupa una parte del precioso
espacio del panel y de la memoria. Si sabe de alguien que lo utilice,
recomiéndele ir al psiquiatra.
El pez %
El pez %s dice:
El pez %s, oráculo contemporáneo
El pez %s, adivino
(con un poco de ayuda de George)
12 horas
24 horas
24-hour
<b>Animación</b>
<b>General</b>
<b>Restaurar ventanas minimizadas</b>
[...]

Look at the "PO-Revision-Date" line. It seems that the langpack was
generated using a template from 2006-05-25. Very old! The translations
in the template was changed in june (removing all its translations), and
the /usr/share/locale-langpack/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-panel-2.0.mo file
was correct until the last langpack update (yesterday).

This problem has reopened the bug #47870:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/language-pack-gnome-es-base/+bug/47870

showing "jue ago de 3" instead of "jue 3 de ago" in the clock applet.

Hope this helps to correct a very annoying problem.

Ricardo.