The solution at hand is good enough to resolve the particular issue at
hand.
There is however a flaw in the translation workflow that lead to this.
In general changing upstream translations is like a patch and Kubuntu
likes to be very very concerned about whether a patch is necessary and
how to carry it out. For maverick we will bring up a full featured patch
spec, and I expect that we should work out a workflow a long with the
ubuntu translators to move translations in line with the general
patching policy we follow.
Such issues as the one presented here are not only horrible from a
technical, but also from a social point of view. Upstream is quick on
being upset with distributors when it comes to patching, but upstream is
even more so when it comes to breaking translations. And as it is, KDE
l10n pretty much hates us for how their translations and localizations
always go down the drain in Kubuntu (be it for breakage in the
infrastructure or translations issues). Any translation hickup that was
caused by changes to their translations AND reported at bugs.kde.org is
putting additional strain on our upstream relations, and if those
relations can't use something, then it is additional strain.
So, this is definitely something to keep on tracking and resolve in mid-
to long-term.
Moritz, please don't take this as personal critique, it is really a problem
with the workflow at large. Nobody is perfect, but there should be systems in
place to prevent us from letting our imperfection hit the user, unfortunately
currently that is not the case.
Thank you for resolving this so quickly and bringing your changes to the
attention of the KDE l10n team.
** Changed in: language-pack-kde-de (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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