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Author Make a single source package for all mozilla-*-locale packages? (Was: [Re: Bug#273420
Alexander Sack

2004-09-27, 5:56 pm

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:

>I agree too. Actually, it makes more sense if we do a single package and
>integrate there mechanisms to extract the needed files from xpis to
>generate mozilla-locale-* packages instead of having each maintainer devise
>its own (as well as redoing the registration of the packages in mozilla as
>documented at [1])
>
>Moreover, somebody (a packaging group) could just package the locale
>definitions available for Mozilla [2], Firefox [3] and Thunderbird [3],
>update them from time to time and update them whenever a new release is
>produced. That would avoid all the bugs related to XXXX-locale-YYY
>packages not allowing transitions of new Mozilla|Firefox|Thunderbird
>versions because they have not been updated and having the binary package
>proceed into testing would break them.
>
>I believe that's actually how Mozilla is integrated in other OS, for
>example, in Solaris IIRC.
>
>

I think, that this would not be too hard to implement. On the other
hand, there would still be problems that some translations might not be
ready if mozilla* packages become ready to go in. IMHO, doing so looks like
a trick to declare translations not to be release critical and in fact
inferior to normal packages.

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