How often does the langpacks update?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2014-05-13 19:23, Phillip Sz wrote:
> On 2014-05-13 18:04, Josef Andersson wrote:
>> I fixed a quite critical translation in the Swedish langpack a while ago
>> (04-27), and although the fix is the current Swedish translation in
>> launchpad, it hasn't been made available in any update yet. The latest
>> langpacks for Swedish available in Ubuntu update is from the beginning
>> of April. So, my question is, how long does it take for an translation
>> that has been set as current to trickle down in an update? I thought the
>> langpacks were updated quite often, (when translations changed in
>> launchpad), but that doesn't seem to be the case.
> 
> Same for German.
> A new language pack would be great.

I talked about this with Martin Pitt on IRC, and he pointed at a couple
of clarifying resources. I'll try to explain the process. (Martin,
please fill in and/or correct me if needed.)

There is a PPA with langpacks which are updated every two weeks:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=trusty

However, released Ubuntu versions, aka stable releases, are not updated
automatically. Instead, as regards 14.04, langpacks may be copied from
the just mentioned PPA to trusty-proposed, and then to trusty-updates if
tested successfully.

There is a wiki page which outlines the simplified testing procedure
applying to langpack updates. It's also used to document the test result
for respective language.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/LanguagePackUpdatesQA

If I understand it correctly, translations for LTS releases have
typically been updated before the point releases (14.04.1, 14.04.2,
etc.) in the past. Ubuntu 14.04.1 is scheduled to be released on July 24th.

I added a 14.04 section to the wiki page for the purpose with the
1:14.04+20140522 version of the langpacks. Nothing has been copied to
trusty-proposed yet, but I take it that Martin is ready to do so, if
there is an interest from some translation teams to update the archive
with that version.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj