This looks to me as a duplicate of bug 534417, which becomes more important now that we install Thunderbird by default, as users will get it in English and won't know how to install the translations.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871178 Title: Upgrading Natty -> Oneiric doesn't install Thunderbird locale Status in Ubuntu Translations: Triaged Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Seen on 7 different machines, so that's largely a "confirmed" : Upgrading Natty machines on which Thunderbird was not installed cause Thunderbird to be installed, but only in english, the thunderbird- locale package corresponding to the system locale is not installed, so must be installed manually. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: thunderbird 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: michel 2940 F.... pulseaudio BuildID: 20110929181644 CRDA: country FR: (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20) (5170 - 5250 @ 40), (N/A, 20) (5250 - 5330 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS (5490 - 5710 @ 40), (N/A, 27), DFS Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6dfc000 irq 47' Mixer name : 'Silicon Image SiI1392 HDMI' Components : 'HDA:83847616,1028020a,00100201 HDA:10951392,1028020a,00100000' Controls : 31 Simple ctrls : 19 Channel: release CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 Date: Sun Oct 9 10:33:54 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback # auto eth0 # iface eth0 inet dhcp InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.10 metric 2 Prefs: places.database.lastMaintenance - 1317616926 extensions.lastAppVersion - 7.0.1 network.cookie.prefsMigrated - true network.cookie.lifetimePolicy - 2 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages - 63056 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20110929181644 RunningIncompatibleAddons: False SourcePackage: thunderbird UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-01 (7 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A15 dmi.board.name: 0N6705 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0N6705:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: XPS M1330 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/871178/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
