Translations lost on upgrade to KDE4

[Patrice Pillot <patrice.pillot@toulouse.archi.fr>]

Hi,

Since I upgraded my squeeze laptop to KDE4 last week, the remaining KDE3
applications (e.g. kspread, ...) lost all of the translated strings that
they took off from /usr/share/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES/kdelibs.mo and
similar generic kde3 .mo files (kio.mo, ...) since those file has been
replaced by kde4 avatars of them. This concerns default menu titles for
very common menus ("&File", ...)

I can see two workarounds but I ain't got time to try them at the moment
to evaluate the "less worse":
- do some symlinks in locale files,
- fetch old kde-i18n-XX from lenny boxes and reinstall them in my
squeeze laptop.

If maintainers think that would deserve a bug report I'll fill it tonight.


TIA for any piece of advice,

pp