Comment 20 for bug 599163

The best solution for ubuntu would be simply to default to TRANSLATE=0 in checkinstallrc and finally be done with this

Users are free to change the rc or if desired on individual builds add a fstrans=yes if there is any reason to.
There was no indication from Felipe Sateler that he found a solution to this and in any event this is just a simple default config change that is better for most in most situations