Re: Cleaning out unused translations

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 17:34, Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org> 
wrote:
> Yes. What do you hope you will gain from doing this? The files will
> “seem” more up to date but the translation coverage will actually 
> stay
> exactly the same.

The obsolete translations still end up in the compiled catalogues and 
increase the package/installed size. The total isn't big admittedly (in 
particular when compared to other assets like images), but the relative 
saving is quite significant (up to 50%) for those stale translations 
that haven't been updated for many years.

Installing message catalogues where half of the entries are never used 
seems fairly pointless as well :-)

(For context, the discussion in 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/3049 triggered the 
MR. Although the messages he tripped over are already commented out, so 
the MR won't "fix" his issue)

Florian