Imports declined from tarball because uploaded file did not contain any files recognized as translation files

Asked by Alessandro Gasparini

I've tried without success to upload a file named logicaldoc45.tar which is a tarball containing the structure
of the translation files for logicaldoc DMS.

the tarball file has been created with the following structure:

application/application.pot
application/de.po
application/fr.po
application/nl.po
...
application-email/application-email.pot
application-email/de.po
application-email/fr.po
...

The tarball has been created with 7zip 4.65 on Windows Vista

The launchpad upload form for translations tell me the messagge:
Upload ignored. The tarball you uploaded did not contain any files that the system recognized as translation files.

how can I change the structure of files to be imported?
Thanks in advance
         Alessandro Gasparini

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Alessandro Gasparini (blucecio74) said :
#1

After some trying i've succesfull uploaded my tarball.

This time i've generated a file with the same name logicaldoc45.tar and with the same structure
but i've created it with Java Ant tar task.

Seems to me that the tar created with 7zip v. 4.57
and 7zip v. 4.65
are not taken correctly by the import form of Launchpad

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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) said :
#2

That sounds like it may be a bug in 7zip. The error message means that Launchpad did open the tarfile, but did not find any filenames inside that follow the .po or .pot pattern.

We'll have to leave it at that for the moment; if a lot of people start running into this then it may be worth looking deeper into it, or perhaps the problem will go away when we upgrade the packages we depend on for this.