LucidTranslations

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Kubuntu packagers have to maintain .pot generation infrastructure
Kubuntu packagers have to deal with broken upstreams (even for universe packages)
Kubuntu packagers have to deal with upstream <-> downstream translation mismatches (notably .desktop translations)
There is no way of knowing if our recreation of upstream's .pot generation is at all accurate (there are places I know it isn't) so no way of knowing for sure if ubuntu language packs are better or worse than upstreams
Past problems have ment some languages have no translators for Kubuntu stuff, e.g. German (I'm told)
strings get changed from upstream for no reason
unclear current status of launchpad translations communities generally
.desktop translations only come from upstream not the packaging
kde-l10n-xx isn't installed by default so no translated docs or media files
when .pot files are moved they need changed in rosetta manually. How well is this working?
generally annoys upstream ("we're not good enough for you?")

So some Kubuntu developers want to drop it. This also causes problems

unclear how to ship translations from KDE apps not in main KDE modules
notable changes would need to be made to pkgbinarymangler and probably to language pack generation
Strings added by our patches would have no chance of being translated (proposed to have them translated upstream)
Kubuntu specific programmes still need translated
wibble