This is an strace with update-manager.mo in /usr/share/locale. You can see that there the update-manager.mo file is opened twice:
open("/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/update-manager.mo", O_RDONLY) = 5 open("/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/update-manager.mo", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 With the update-manager.mo in /usr/share/locale-langpack the file is only opened once: open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/es/LC_MESSAGES/update-manager.mo", O_RDONLY) = 5 ** Attachment added: "strace -e trace=open,stat64 software-properties with .mo file in /usr/share/locale/..." http://librarian.launchpad.net/4554203/s-p.log -- [Edgy] Some translations are not applied https://launchpad.net/bugs/62681 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs