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  1. Bug #30078
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 30078

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David Planella (dpm) wrote : Re: vim package has all translations (look at /usr/share/vim/vim63/lang/) instead of using langpacks

This is still the case today.

We ship translations in language packs, but if I'm not mistaken, they are not used (the ones in /usr/share/vim/vim$VERSION/lang/$LANG/LC_MESSAGES are). On my system:

/usr/share/locale-langpack/ca/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/locale-langpack/es/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/af/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/ca/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/cs/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/de/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
/usr/share/vim/vim72/lang/eo/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
[...]

I think until upstream starts using standard gettext we should disable the vim translation template from Launchpad and not include it in language packs.