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Help to fix broken .po import

Asked by TLE

Hey
I'm one of administrators on the Danish translation team on launchpad. Recently one of the translators on my team translated the .po-file for
add-applications (ubuntu-docs) for gutsy
He translated it externally since that is our procedure. Now I wanted to make sure that his translation got imported in both gutsy and hardy. So first I imported in Gutsy and then in Hardy (same file), but when I imported it in Hardy I got error-mail saying the following:
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Hello TLE,

On 2008-02-22 22:37+0000 (16 minutes ago), you uploaded 286 Danish (da)
translations for add-applications in Ubuntu Hardy package "ubuntu-docs"
in Launchpad.

There were problems with 112 of these translations.

7. "This message was updated by someone else after you got the
translation file. This translation is now stored as a suggestion, if you
want to set it as the used one, go to
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/ubuntu-docs/+pots/add-
applications/da/+translate and approve it.":

#: add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:4(para)
msgid ""
"This document is maintained by the Ubuntu documentation team "
"(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam). For a list of contributors, see "
"the <ulink url=\"../../../common/C/contributors.xml\">contributors "
"page</ulink>"
msgstr ""
"Dette dokument vedligeholdes af Ubuntu-dokumentationsholdet "
"(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam). For en liste over bidragydere, "
"se <ulink url=\"../../../common/C/contributors.xml\">bidragydersiden</ulink>"

8. "This message was updated by someone else after you got the
translation file. This translation is now stored as a suggestion, if you
want to set it as the used one, go to
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/ubuntu-docs/+pots/add-
applications/da/+translate and approve it.":

...
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and it goes on. The result is that only very few of the messages were actually imported even though I know from doing a manual merge of one po-file into the other that a lot of them could be reused. So now I have two question:
1. What is the correct way to do this? Import in gutsy and wait for it to automatically be imported in hardy (does that even happen)?, import in both and hope it goes better? Manually msgmerge the gutsy file into the hardy and import that?
2. Since I am not able to fix it, could one of you guys please delete the file in hardy and reinitialize it with the translation from gutsy. I inserted links to both files below.
Thanks in advance Kenneth Nielsen (Tle)

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+source/ubuntu-docs/+pots/add-applications/da/+translate
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/ubuntu-docs/+pots/add-applications/da/+translate

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Best Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) said : 		#1

Probably the easiest thing for now is what you suggest: download the Hardy version, msgmerge your latest translations into it, update the PO-Revision-Date to reflect your changes, and upload back into Hardy. We are working on automatic updates from Gutsy to Hardy, but they're not enabled yet.

There should be no need to delete anything (except the failed import queue entry, but you can do that yourself); just upload new versions and they'll supersede the current ones.

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TLE (k-nielsen81) said : 		#2

Thanks Jeroen T. Vermeulen, that solved my question.

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TLE (k-nielsen81) said : 		#3

Thanks for the answer. I don't understand because I was pretty sure I did the same thing before and then it didn't want to import it. But it works now :)