On 04/07/2011 09:57 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Chris Coulson [2011-04-07 9:25 +0100]: >> - This means that Firefox will output xpi's for every language in the >> future (not just for en-US). We either need to package these in to >> dedicated language packs for Firefox (e.g., firefox-locale-foo) > I. e. build separate binaries from the firefox source? This would > certainly work and make the process a lot easier, too. We can then > integrate it into the existing language-selector framework. > I this is a good idea so that Firefox security upgrades aren't blocked on new language packs. >> - Note that searchplugins are shipped independently of the xpi's. If >> we are going to be shipping Firefox translations with our language >> packs (as we do currently), this would mean Launchpad would need a >> mechanism for importing and exporting the searchplugins alongside the >> xpi's too. > As they are so small, wouldn't it be much easier to just ship them all > in the firefox.deb, as they come from upstream anyway?
This is another reason why generating firefox-locale-foo would be good. Otherwise, we'd be adding ~3MB to the main firefox package. Micah -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
