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and subject line Bug#400841: mozilla-firefox-locale-all: Please make
firefox-locale-foo packages transitions to iceweasel-l10n-foo
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Package: mozilla-firefox-locale-all
Severity: wishlist
To enable a transition from firefox to iceweasel which maintains the
installed localisation, the firefox-locale-foo packages (currently at
version 1.5.0.7-4) should become transition packages with the
appropriate version numbers (I guess this would be 2.0-3, to match the
iceweasel-l10n packages) depending on iceweasel-l10n-foo, as has been
done with the mozilla-firefox-locale-foo packages.
Currently, attempting to upgrade from firefox (at version
1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2) to iceweasel results in the localisation being
removed, rather than the iceweasel localisation package being installed.
$ sudo apt-get --dry-run dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
firefox-locale-en-gb
The following NEW packages will be installed
iceweasel iceweasel-dom-inspector iceweasel-gnome-support
The following packages will be upgraded:
firefox firefox-dom-inspector firefox-gnome-support
3 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv firefox-locale-en-gb [1.5.0.7-4]
Inst firefox-dom-inspector [1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2] (2.0+dfsg-1
Debian:unstable) []
Inst firefox-gnome-support [1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2] (2.0+dfsg-1
Debian:unstable) []
Inst firefox [1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2] (2.0+dfsg-1 Debian:unstable) []
Inst iceweasel (2.0+dfsg-1 Debian:unstable) []
Inst iceweasel-dom-inspector (2.0+dfsg-1 Debian:unstable) []
Inst iceweasel-gnome-support (2.0+dfsg-1 Debian:unstable)
The more friendly behaviour would be for the above to remove nothing,
with firefox-locale-en-gb being upgraded and iceweasel-l10n-en-gb being
installed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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Andrew Rendle wrote:
> To enable a transition from firefox to iceweasel which maintains the
> installed localisation, the firefox-locale-foo packages (currently at
> version 1.5.0.7-4) should become transition packages with the
> appropriate version numbers (I guess this would be 2.0-3, to match the
> iceweasel-l10n packages) depending on iceweasel-l10n-foo, as has been
> done with the mozilla-firefox-locale-foo packages.
the firefox-locale-foo packages were never released as part of a stable
release, hence, there is no policy violation when not providing
transition packages for this name change.
i agree that it would have been nice to have transitional packages for
firefox-locale-foo too, but:
* it's now a bit too late to only add these packages just for the
testing/unstable upgrade path to itself. most people will have
upgraded their system already.
* having a second set of transitional packages would be a bit ugly and
uselessly bump the package.
i don't expect a new rename takes place in the forseeable future.
however, if i would come to the same situtation again, i would add
transitional packages and drop them after a month or so. but you're
right, that would have been the best to do.
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