Comment 3 for bug 411023

Hi Jean-Baptiste.

Yes and no :)

I've been keeping Debian's Synaptic pt_BR translation up-to-date. I've
opened this bug for Ubuntu when Karmic was still an Alpha because the
pot files are different from Debian to Ubuntu (I don't remember
exactly but mainly the line numbering).
But there are some folks who are used to/responsible for the Brazilian
translations in Ubuntu and someone did use this translation to update
some things but not others. It's quite common to see mistakes in
number (singular/plural) or verb/noun in Brazilian translations from
English since one must be quite used to the English language and also
be somewhat thorough in revising and standardizing the whole document
to avoid them.

I don't use Ubuntu anymore but I did use Karmic from beta until some
time after its release. The translation was ok in terms of not
hampering the usability but since the people responsible for it
weren't careful enough to try to understand why some things were
changed it ended up somewhat messy.

I won't be able to dedicate myself to this now. There are some things
that Ubuntu must improve (mainly in the sense that it has a very large
number of users, many of them willing to contribute, but it's still
managed as if it was from a small number of friends). In this specific
case, if you'd like to have a good pt_BR translation, just take the
one from Debian's latest version (I think it's 0.63-1) and ask someone
to port it to Ubuntu thoroughly.

Regards.

On 2/21/10, Jean-Baptiste Lallement <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for your report.
>
> Were the brazilian translations updated since then ?
>
> ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation for synaptic-0.62.7ubuntu2
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411023
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