The installer is special because it has to be handled manually: it can't
use language packs, because it is itself responsible for installing
language packs. It's also composed of several dozen individual
components, each of which needs to be manually uploaded in order to
import translations. Furthermore, once I import Launchpad translations
into the source package, this means that I need to make a decision on
every conflict every time I merge new changes from Debian; these changes
often do include genuine translation fixes (often serious) and at the
point when I'm merging those changes, new strings aren't available in
Launchpad (and in fact the Debian strings wouldn't be visible in
Launchpad unless I uploaded them ...). This all adds up to a very large
amount of work for me, and I'm sorry but I'm just not prepared to cope
with it.

The debian-installer template exists in Launchpad because there are
Ubuntu-specific strings there that need to be translated. I have
contemplated trying to split out a separate template for just the
Ubuntu-specific bits, but haven't got round to doing this yet.

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Please, update the Ubiquity translations using the latest translations from 
Launchpad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356683
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