Re: Cleaning out unused translations

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 20:58, Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org> 
wrote:
> I must be missing something because all the changes in your MR have a
> net increase of content (e.g. ar.po is
> + 1538 - 682) so I would expect the translations to actually take up
> more space after the update.

Sorry for being unclear, I'll try to explain better.

The merge requests changes the .po files, and they indeed increase in 
size:

- new translated strings are added
- translations for removed strings are commented out (but not removed)

But both comments and untranslated messages are discarded when 
compiling the .po to .mo files, so the latter do get smaller (because 
the additions are not added, while message that were commented out are 
removed)


> If it’s a pointless change vs. a pointless status quo, I’ll 
> choose the
> pointless status quo

Fair enough. Feel free to close the MR.

--
Florian