[Bug 1637801] Re: Incorrect Russian translation of "apt list --upgradeable" results

[Martin Pitt]

> The correct approach is to have gettext look into the langpack
translations first, and then fall back to the package's translations.

No, it's not. Normal/released Ubuntu packages get their translations
stripped out of the debs. But if you install a backport, third-party
package, or self-built package, you want to see the translation that it
ships, not the Ubuntu translations as they now apply to an older version
only. Hence /usr/share/locale/ must have precedence over /usr/share
/locale-langpack/.

There are just a handful of packages which you need for upgrading and
*installing* langpacks which have their translations built-in, like apt
or language-selector.

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Title:
  Incorrect Russian translation of "apt list --upgradeable" results

Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Invalid
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  bor at bor-Latitude-E5450:~$ apt list --upgradeable
  Вывод списка… Готово
  build/неизвестно 20161025 all [может быть обновлён до: 20151105]

  In Russian this means "version 20161025 can be upgraded TO version
  20151105)

  While original English says exactly opposite:

  bor at bor-Latitude-E5450:~$ LC_ALL=C LANG=C apt list --upgradeable
  Listing... Done
  build/unknown 20161025 all [upgradable from: 20151105]

  Literal translation (that does not require serious phrase change)
  would probably be

  "может быть обновлен с"

  although it sounds also artificial, as in Russian subject is package
  that is being updated (currently installed), not new version.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-25.27~16.04.1-generic 4.8.1
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Oct 30 09:39:47 2016
  DistributionChannelDescriptor:
   # This is a distribution channel descriptor
   # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
   canonical-oem-somerville-trusty-amd64-20140620-0
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-02 (485 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20140620-04:25
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-10-29 (0 days ago)

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